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Financial institutes are the lifeblood of the financial system of any country that plays an intermediary between the surplus and deficit unit of any society. So the efficiency and performance of a financial institution is the indication of sound financial system. In this study the authors are...
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We use the introduction of a U.S. commercial credit bureau to study when lenders adopt voluntary information sharing technology and the resulting consequences for competition and credit access. Our results suggest that lenders trade off access to new markets against heightened competition for...
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We investigate the impact of the reputation of a private equity group (PEG) on financing costs in leveraged buyouts … (LBOs). PEGs with a strong reputation have superior selection abilities and may be able to obtain cheaper LBO loans due to …' reputation indeed lowers financing costs. The size of the effect depends crucially on the chosen syndicate structure. The effect …
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I model an open-end mutual fund investing in illiquid assets and show that the fund's endogenous cash management can generate shareholder runs even with a flexible NAV. The fund optimally re-builds its cash buffers at time t 1 after outflows at t to prevent future forced sales of illiquid...
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We discuss a general dynamic replication approach to counterparty credit risk modeling. This leads to a fundamental jump-process backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) for the credit risk adjusted portfolio value. We then reduce the fundamental BSDE to a continuous BSDE. Depending on...
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We identify and track over time the factors that make the financial system vulnerable to fire sales by constructing an index of aggregate vulnerability. The index starts increasing quickly in 2004, before most other major systemic risk measures, and triples by 2008. The fire-sale-specific...
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Third-party loan guarantees are prevalent for the bank loans made in China. We study the economics of third-party loan guarantees using data from a large and legitimate loan guarantee firm. We show that guarantors provide useful information about the borrowers. We conclude that the loan...
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This paper provides a theory of stepwise maturity transformations in intermediation chains, which have become a common …-long duration to money market funds with daily demandable shares). This theory reconciles the idea of debt as disciplining device …
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Using a specially-constructed dataset, we are able to compare the costs of leasing or borrowing that heretofore no research exists. With a 15% average yield in our overall sample of small contracts, we show that leases average about 12.5% while loans average 24%. After matching paired-samples of...
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