Böser, Florian - 2021 - This version: June 29, 2021
We study how the subjective beliefs about loan repayment on the side of liquidity-constrained banks affect the central … bank's choice of collateral standards in its lending facilities. Optimism on the side of banks, entailing a higher … collateral value of bank loans, can lead to excessive lending and bank default. Pessimism, though, can entail insufficient …