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Traditionally banks have used securitization for expanding credit and thus their profitability. It has been well documented that, at least before the 2008 crisis, many banks were keeping a high proportion of the securities that they created on their own balance-sheets. Those securities retained...
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This paper models the strategic interaction between a rating agency, a bank and a bank regulator who lacks information about bank asset risk. The regulator can either (1) make bank capital requirements contingent on credit ratings; or (2) set rating-independent capital requirements. Truthful...
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A common practice of banks has been to pool assets of different qualities and then sell a fraction of the newly created portfolios to investors. We extend the signaling model for single sales of risky assets to portfolio sales. We identify conditions under which signaling at the portfolio level...
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, but the relative contribution of the two types of market turns out to be highly unstable, especially for the most deferred …
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This paper presents a market with asymmetric information where a privately revealing equilibrium obtains in a …
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a market mechanism to allocate use rights over a stochastic resource to private managers. The mechanism endogenously …
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We study a two-sided market where a platform attracts firms selling differentiated products and buyers interested in … externalities present in the market and firms and consumers all participate in the platform with probability one. The monopolist … intermediary extracts all the economic rents generated in the market, except when firms and consumers can trade outside the …
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This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An … identified classes, the planner may need to restrict the choice space of agents to implement its second best in the market. This …
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appears to be disputable whether the observed restrictions on transfers are the appropriate market design answer to these … concerns. Instead of exogenously restricting transfers on a matching market, we introduce a desideratum based on fairness … objectives and study its market design implications. The desideratum we concentrate on is discrimination-freeness, i.e. one …
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In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find that partial ownership arrangements can be more profitable for the acquiring and acquired firm because they can result in a greater dampening of competition. We also derive...
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