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Using evidence from Russia, we explore the effect of the introduction of deposit insurance on bank risk. Drawing on …
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This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of …
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We suggest an explanation for the existence of "mission drift", the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to lend money to wealthier borrowers rather than to the very poor. We focus on the relationship between MFIs and external funding institutions. We assume that both the MFIs and the...
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We analyze the impact of introducing a central bank-issued digital currency (CBDC) on the operational framework of … frictional interbank market, a central bank with deposit and lending facilities, and household preferences for different liquid …" has a rather small effect on bank lending to the real economy, and hence on aggregate investment and GDP. This result …
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mechanisms for bank risk-taking studied in a large partial equilibrium literature. We show that competitive equilibriums maximize … banks is higher than that of banks enjoying monopoly rents, and is robust to the introduction of social costs of bank … failures. In this model, there is no trade-off between bank competition and financial stability. -- general equilibrium ; bank …
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We formalize the idea that a financial conglomerate may utilize commercial banking activities to cross-subsidize investment banking through bundled offers. The investment banking sector entails supra-normal profits due to incentive problems with security underwriting. Universal banks may aim to...
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We study the effects of improvements in market transparency on eBay on seller exit and continuing sellers' behavior. An improvement in market transparency by reducing strategic bias in buyer ratings led to a significant increase in buyer valuation especially of sellers rated poorly prior to the...
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Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call second-degree moral hazard – the tendency of the supply...
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We study the role of information exchange, leadership and coordination in team or partnership structures. For this purpose, we view individuals jointly engaging in productive processes-a "team"-as endowed with individual and privately held information on the joint production process. Once...
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We analyze the optimal contract between a risk-averse manager and the initial shareholders in a two-period model where …
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