En este trabajo mostramos que la sobrecolateralización de los pasivos garantizados bancarios se asocia de forma positiva con la prima de riesgo de su financiación no garantizada. Incorporamos esta idea en un modelo teórico en el que los costes derivados del gravamen de activos (asset...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2131

This paper analyzes lenders' pricing strategies in the business-to-customer (B2C) unsecured loan market by using a proprietary dataset of approximately 3 million unsecured consumer loans from a B2C online retailer in China. We find that lenders' decisions to invite customers are based on...

We document that overcollateralisation of banks’ secured liabilities is positively associated with the risk premium on their unsecured funding. We rationalize this finding in a theoretical model in which costs of asset encumbrance increase collateral haircuts and the endogenous risk of a...

We develop a theory of bank information sharing, highlighting the interactions between credit and labor markets. A better-informed relationship bank competes with a less informed foreign bank for borrowers under asymmetric information about borrowers' creditworthiness. Credit market competition...

This paper presents a spatial model to analyze the effects of the entry of Fintech lenders on credit market competition and welfare. In the model, banks compete with a Fintech lender for borrowers under asymmetric information. Both types of lenders can screen borrowers before making a loan, and...