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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper ; No. 2019-47

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Financial Crises
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
Thema
Financial institutions
Financial markets
Financial system regulation andpolicies

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Ahnert, Toni
Kuncl, Martin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Canada
(wo)
Ottawa
(wann)
2019

DOI
doi:10.34989/swp-2019-47
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Ahnert, Toni
  • Kuncl, Martin
  • Bank of Canada

Entstanden

  • 2019

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