This paper proposes a model that links households and firms, as usual, by markets for factors and goods and, additionally, by a banking sector that channels households' funds to firms and eliminates idiosyncratic risk. In equilibrium, agency costs and tax benefits of corporate debt are...

There is a prevalent belief of there being two classes of politicians: the good and the bad ones; that is to say that some politicians hold the public's interest at heart and will make good use of public funds (i.e. taxed capital), while other politicians, due to a plurality of possible reasons,...

In this paper, financial infrastructures increase the efficiency of the banking sector: they decrease the market power (due to horizontal differentiation) of the financial intermediaries, lower the cost of capital, increase the number of depositors and the amount of intermediated savings,...

We show that asset opacity can improve the efficiency of investment in the economy. We consider a model where underinvestment arises from speculative cash-hoardings aiming to benefit from fire-sale prices. Whereas opacity provides no benefit to asset originators in the case of isolated...

This study makes a seminal contribution to bankruptcy prediction models by providing the dynamic characterization of the link between bankruptcy/liquidation, ex-ante financial distress risk and the real economy. By employing simultaneous equation model, we provide a comprehensive setup for...

Financial depth does not fully reflect how well the financial intermediaries serve to economic agents in stimulating economic growth. Additional aspects of financial system such as access, efficiency and stability should be taken into account in order to shed light into the relationship between...

The notion that time is relative has been widely accepted by physicists since Albert Einstein formulated his theory of relativity in 1905. However, many other scientific disciplines, like finance and economics, have thus far disregarded relativistic time concepts. In this paper, I show how a...

This study discusses the current state of knowledge on the financial development and economic growth by reviewing the most decisive theoretical and empirical contributions. It is obvious that financial development is at least correlated with economic development and that a sound and refined...

This paper empirically reassesses the long-debated relationship between financial structure and economic growth. Specifically, we examine whether the effect of financial structure on economic growth is affected by the financial structure disproportion, banking crisis, economic volatility, and...

Uniswap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) and was first launched on November 2, 2018 on the Ethereum mainnet [1] and is part of an Ecosystem of products in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). It replaces a traditional order book type of trading common on centralized exchanges (CEX) with a...