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We analyze the role of debt in persuading an entrepreneur to pay out cash flows, rather than to divert them. In the first part of the paper we study the optimal debt contract -- specifically, the trade-off between the size of the loan and the repayment -- under the assumption that some debt...
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the financial health of the contracting parties and uncertainty regarding the borrowers' credit quality. The relative …
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This paper employs an unsupervised machine learning technique to construct a novel measure that captures tight multidimensional interconnections among lenders. We show both the likelihood and intensity of loan renegotiation increase with this measure. The results are robust to controlling for...
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We propose a parsimonious model with adverse selection where delinquency, renegotiation, and bankruptcy all occur in equilibrium as a result of a simple screening mechanism. A borrower has private information about her cost of bankruptcy, and a lender may use random contracts to screen different...
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A structural analysis of credit contract theory -- The treatment of credit contract theory in the literature -- A … standardisation of credit contract theory -- Joint liability and its potential to cause adverse selection instead of resolving it … analysis of credit contract theory The treatment of credit contract theory in the literature A standardisation of credit …
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