Arbeitspapier
Loan insurance, market liquidity, and lending standards
We examine insurance against loan default when lenders can screen in primary markets at a heterogeneous cost and learn loan quality over time. In equilibrium, low-cost lenders screen loans, but some high-cost lenders insure them. Insured loans are risk-free and liquid in a secondary market, while uninsured loans are subject to adverse selection. Loan insurance reduces the amount of lemons traded in the secondary market for uninsured loans, improves liquidity, and lowers lending standards. This pecuniary externality implies insufficient loan insurance in the liquid equilibrium. Therefore, a regulator achieves constrained efficiency by imposing a Pigouvian subsidy on loan insurance.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper ; No. 2019-47
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Financial Crises
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
- Thema
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Financial institutions
Financial markets
Financial system regulation andpolicies
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Ahnert, Toni
Kuncl, Martin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Bank of Canada
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Ottawa
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2019
- DOI
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doi:10.34989/swp-2019-47
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Ahnert, Toni
- Kuncl, Martin
- Bank of Canada
Entstanden
- 2019