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Weak creditor rights introduce contracting frictions and magnify conflicts of interest between borrowers and creditors. We examine the effects of creditor rights on the sensitivity of bank lending terms to aggregate relative to firm-specific information. We formulate two competing hypotheses. On...
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We investigate the role of the judicial system on whether or not the firms obtain the credit they applied for, by … property rights protection), the lower the probability that the firms are credit constrained. Our results are robust to … that these variables have considerable economic impact: the probability to obtain credit is up to 40% higher in countries …
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This study investigates the influence of creditor control rights on the pricing of corporate loans. We construct a novel dataset that combines hand-collected covenant violations data with individual borrowers, creditors, and loan contract information. Our data allows us to distinguish between...
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What is a good and effective creditor protection system? Can a creditor protection system, understood as a variety of mechanisms employed jointly or individually to protect the interests of creditors, deliver for all creditors, or are there different systems of creditor protection needed for...
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Using the state-level adoption of anti-recharacterization laws (ARLs), this paper examines how strengthening the rights of some creditors affects other creditors’ claims. The adoption of an ARL significantly increases the rights of securitization creditors by denying bankruptcy court judges’...
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This paper extends what we know about loss given default (LGD) on commercial loans by studying certain types of these loans that have been excluded from previous research but that may be more representative of loans held by small and mid-sized banks. We use a newly available dataset on...
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Whereas recent studies on revolving lines of credit suggest a positive relationship between exposure at default and … simultaneous analysis of credit line utilization and default probability on a personal loan. We model both financial instruments …. Individuals in the default state use their credit line 59% more than those in the non-default state, and full utilization of the …
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When a loan is close to becoming non-performing, banks have stronger incentives to renegotiate it in favourable conditions for the borrower (loan forbearance) rather than for recognising and resolving the non-performing loan. At the aggregated level and looking at borrowers (non-financial...
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