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students who have private information on their ability to learn and can decide to default on debt. We show that the combination … of ex-post moral hazard and adverse selection produces credit market rationing when default penalties are low. When … default penalties increase, the level of student risk aversion proves crucial in determining the market outcome. If risk …
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students who have private information on their ability to learn and can decide to default on debt. We show that the combination … of ex-post moral hazard and adverse selection produces credit market rationing when default penalties are low. When … default penalties increase, the level of student risk aversion proves crucial in determining the market outcome. If risk …
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Potential Future Exposure (PFE) is a standard risk metric for managing business unit counterparty credit risk but there is debate on how it should be calculated. The debate has been whether to use one of many historical ("physical") measures (one per calibration setup), or one of many...
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This paper is concerned with occupational choice under risk, where agents care about their social status. It is motivated by recent developments in the 'New Economy', which indicate that status preferences possibly provide an explanation for the observed shift towards entrepreneurial...
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to materialize ex post when the ex ante probability of counterparty default is low. Variation margins emerge as an …
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Derivatives activity, motivated by risk-sharing, can breed risk-taking. Bad news about the risk of the asset underlying the derivative increases the expected liability of a protection seller and undermines her risk-prevention incentives. This limits risk-sharing, and may create endogenous...
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