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Do bankrupt firms impose negative externalities on their non-bankrupt competitors? We propose and analyze a collateral channel in which a firm's bankruptcy reduces collateral values of other industry participants, thereby increasing the cost of external debt finance industry wide. To identify...
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. The turmoil in the U.S. airline industry has triggered much of the public policy discussion, as some observers have argued … and their rivals. The data suggest that an airline's prices typically decline somewhat before it files for bankruptcy … bankrupt airline lower their prices, however, nor that they lose passengers to their bankrupt rival. These results indicate …
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This paper provides quantitative evidence on interbank transmission of financial distress in the Panic of 1907 and ensuing recession. Originating in New York City, the panic led to payment suspensions and emergency currency issuance in many cities. Data on the universe of interbank connections...
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As is well known, during the pandemic recession firms directly exposed to the virus, i.e. the "contact" sector, contracted sharply and recovered slowly relative to the rest of the economy. Less understood is how firms that "won" by offering safer substitutes for contact sector goods have...
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The costs of government assistance to banks depend on the way rescues are managed. The cnetral questions of policy … benefits and reduce the costs of government support for banks …
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We examine how collateral affects the cost of debt capital. Theories based on borrower moral hazard and limited pledgeable income predict that collateral increases the availability of credit and reduces its price. Testing these theories is complicated by the very selection problem which they...
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costs incurred for raising leverage, which helps explain the negative profitability-leverage relation across industries …
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The U.S. airline industry went through tremendous turmoil in the early 2000's. There were four major bankruptcies and … the airline industry, and estimates the impact of demand and supply changes on profitability. We find that, compared with …
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The airline industry's current financial crisis has raised concerns over the ramifications of airline bankruptcies for … air service offered, not the number of flights offered by a particular airline. We study all major U.S. airline … recognizing that competing airlines may increase service in response to a reduction in flights by a bankrupt airline. We do not …
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This chapter develops a unified framework for the study of how network interactions can function as a mechanism for propagation and amplification of microeconomic shocks. The framework nests various classes of games over networks, models of macroeconomic risk originating from microeconomic...
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