Moral Hazard and Debt Maturity
We present a model of the maturity of a bank’s uninsured debt. The bank borrows funds and chooses afterwards the riskiness of its assets. This moral...
Cyclical Adjustment of Capital Requirements: A Simple Framework
We present a model of an economy with heterogeneous banks that may be funded with uninsured deposits and equity capital. Capital serves to ameliorate...
Credit Markets and Real Economic Activity: A Model of Financial Intermediation
This paper considers a model of financial intermediation based on the existence of a moral hazard problem in the choice of investment projects by a...
DP 203
Some Remarks on Leland's Model of Insider Trading
This paper begins by noting that Leland's (1992) results on the effects of insider trading are not robust to the introduction of some noise in the...
DP 189