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Risk-Based Capital Standards and the Riskiness of Bank Portfolios : Credit and Factor Risks

Grenadier, Steven R. - 2010

Bank risk-based capital (RBC) standards require banks to hold differing amounts of capital for different classes of … weights accurately reflect bank asset risk, we find that the weights fail even in their limited goal of correctly quantifying … are considered in the RBC regulations. We also examine other types of bank risk by estimating a simple factor model that …

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Designed to Fail : Effects of the Default Option and Information Complexity on Student Loan Repayment

Cox, James C. - 2018

We ask why so few student loan borrowers enroll in Income Driven Repayment when the majority would benefit from doing so. To do so we run an incentivized laboratory experiment using a facsimile of the government's Student Loan Exit Counseling website. We test the role information complexity,...

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A Model of Mortgage Default

Campbell, John Y. - 2011

This paper solves a dynamic model of a household's decision to default on its mortgage, taking into account labor income, house price, inflation, and interest rate risk. Mortgage default is triggered by negative home equity, which results from declining house prices in a low inflation...

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Is Credit Event Risk Priced? Modeling Contagion Via the Updating of Beliefs

Collin-Dufresne, Pierre - 2010

Empirical tests of reduced form models of default attribute a large fraction of observed credit spreads to compensation for jump-to-default risk. However, these models preclude a "contagion-risk'' channel, where the aggregate corporate bond index reacts adversely to a credit event. In this...

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Rollover Risk and Market Freezes

Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

The crisis of 2007-09 has been characterized by a sudden freeze in the market for short-term, secured borrowing. We present a model that can explain a sudden collapse in the amount that can be borrowed against finitely-lived assets with little credit risk. The borrowing in this model takes the...

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Rollover Risk and Credit Risk

He, Zhiguo - 2010

This paper models a firm's rollover risk generated by conflict of interest between debt and equity holders. When the firm faces losses in rolling over its maturing debt, its equity holders are willing to absorb the losses only if the option value of keeping the firm alive justifies the cost of...

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Cash Holdings and Credit Risk

Acharya, Viral V. - 2011

Intuition suggests that firms with higher cash holdings are safer and should have lower credit spreads. Yet empirically, the correlation between cash and spreads is robustly positive and higher for lower credit ratings. This puzzling finding can be explained by the precautionary motive for...

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An Empirical Study of the Credit Market with Unobserved Consumer Typers

Gan, Li - 2008

This paper proposes an econometric model to identify unobserved consumer types in the credit market. Consumers choose different amounts of loan because of differences in their time or risk preferences (types). Thus, the unconditional probability of default is modeled using a mixture density...

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Ldc's Foreign Borrowing and Default Risk : an Empirical Investigation

Edwards, Sebastian - 2010

This paper investigates to what extent the international financial community has taken into account the risk characteristics of borrowing less developed countries when granting loans. Specifically, this study analyzes the determinants of the spread between the interest rate charged to a...

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Insolvency Resolution and the Missing High Yield Bond Markets

Becker, Bo - 2013

borrowers will use bank loans anywhere, but also bonds when bankruptcy is efficient. The model matches empirical debt mix …-country and using insolvency reforms as natural experiments. Our empirical estimates suggest that a one …-standard-deviation increase in the efficiency of bankruptcy is associated with an increase in the stock of corporate bonds equal to 5% of firm …

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