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Bougheas, Spiros P.; Worrall, Timothy - 2017

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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Financial markets, banks' cost of funding, and firms' decisions : lessons from two crises

Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - 2015 - This draft: December 10, 2015

We test whether adverse changes to banks' market valuations during the financial and sovereign debt crises, and the associated increase in banks'cost of funding, affected firms' real decisions. Using new data linking over 3,000 non-financial Italian firms to their bank(s), we find that increases...

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Pooling, tranching and credit expansion

Bougheas, Spiros P. - 2012

Traditionally banks have used securitization for expanding credit and thus their profitability. It has been well …-rated tranche. This paper builds a simple model of securitization that accounts for the above retention strategies. Banks in the … predicted retention strategies match well those found in empirical studies. -- securitization ; tranching ; credit expansion …

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Securitization of mortgage debt, asset prices and international risk sharing

Hoffmann, Mathias; Nitschka, Thomas - 2009

We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making … mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption … countries that do not allow for mortgage securitization. Our results are based on quarterly data from a panel of 16 …

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Financial development, cycles and income inequality in a model with good and bad projects

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Commendatore, Pasquale; Gardini, Laura - 2022

We introduce a banking sector and heterogeneous agents in the Matsuyama et al. (2016) dynamic over-lapping generations neoclassical model with good and bad projects. The model captures the benefits and costs of an advanced banking system which can facilitate economic development when allocates...

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Do Zombies rise when interest rates fall? : a relationship banking model

Herweg, Fabian; Kähny, Maximilian - 2022

An entrepreneur chooses a relationship bank or market finance. The advantage of bank finance is that the quality of the entrepreneur’s project is identified early, allowing to liquidate low-quality projects. The loan contract induces an efficient continuation decision if the entrepreneur has...

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Loss aversion and tax evasion : theory and evidence

Dhami, Sanjit S.; Hajimoladarvish, Narges; Mamidi, Pavan - 2023

We consider income-source-dependent tax evasion and show that this is a generalization of the well-known endowment effect. We show that loss aversion, moral costs, mental accounting, and risk preferences play a key role in explaining key features of source-dependent tax evasion. We provide...

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Gendered access to finance : the role of team formation, idea quality, and implementation constraints in business evaluations

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina; … - 2023

We analyze gender discrimination in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success, yet constraints for women are particularly pronounced. We structurally unpack whether loan officers evaluate business ideas and implementation constraints differently for male...

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Implicit and explicit deposit insurance and depositor behavior

Atmaca, Sümeyra; Kirschenmann, Karolin; Ongena, Steven; … - 2023

We employ proprietary data from a large bank to analyze how - during crisis - deposit insurance affects depositor behavior. Our focus is on Belgium where the government increased explicit deposit insurance coverage and implemented implicit deposit insurance arrangements. Estimating sorting below...

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Interest rate risk in banking

DeMarzo, Peter M.; Krishnamurthy, Arvind; Nagel, Stefan - 2024

We develop a framework to estimate bank franchise value. Contrary to existing models, sticky deposits and low deposit rate betas do not imply negative duration. While operating costs could generate negative duration, they are offset by fixed interest rate spreads from lending activity....

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