Showing 1 - 10 of 20,447
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790739
The US credit boom has been identified as one of the causes of the global financial crisis and the resulting debt overhang is seen as the primary reason for the weak economic recovery. Most of the existing literature links the credit boom to the emergence of the shadow banking system. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456517
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010156
We investigate the U.S. experience with macroprudential policies by studying the interagency guidance on leveraged lending. We find that the guidance primarily impacted large, closely supervised banks, but only after supervisors issued important clarifications. It also triggered a migration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657569
We study the determinants of borrowers' default in P2P lending with a new data set consisting of 70,673 loan observations from Lending Club. Previous research identified a number of default determining variables but did not distinguish between different loan risk levels. We define four loan risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572701
We study the determinants of borrowers’ default in P2P lending with a new data set consisting of 70,673 loan observations from the Lending Club. Previous research identified a number of default determining variables but did not distinguish between different loan risk levels. We define four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993331
Does bank instability push borrowers to use crowdfunding as a source of external finance? We identify stressed banks … and link them to a unique, manually constructed sample of 157 new ventures seeking equity crowdfunding. The sample … comprises projects from all German equity crowdfunding platforms since 2011, which we compare with 200 ventures that do not use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317927
The ex ante theory of collateral states that better informed lenders, such as informal lenders, rely less on collateral. We test this by contrasting the use of collateral between formal and informal lenders in the same market. Indeed, formal lenders rely more often on collateral, controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342166
We analyze lending by traditional as well as FinTech lenders during COVID-19. Comparing samples of FinTech and bank loan records across the outbreak, we find that FinTech companies are more likely to expand credit access to new and financially constrained borrowers after the start of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247515
I build a dynamic model of the shadow banking system that intermediates funds through the interbank repo market to understand its failing mechanism during the recent financial crisis. The model emphasizes a key friction, the maturity mismatch between short-term repo and long-term investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047310