Essays on banking and corporate finance

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2005.

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Main Author: Paravisini, Daniel
Other Authors: Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Antoinette Scholar.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32400
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spelling mit-1721.1/324002019-04-10T13:45:48Z Essays on banking and corporate finance Paravisini, Daniel Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Antoinette Scholar. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Economics. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2005. Includes bibliographical references. The first essay provides evidence that banks are liquidity constrained and hold private information about borrowers that hinders substitution of financing sources. Using loan level data from a public credit bureau and exploiting an exogenous shock to bank liquidity, I show that adverse selection prevents full arbitrage of profitable opportunities by competing lenders and thus liquidity constraints propagate to bank-dependent borrowers. The second essay evaluates a government program that targeted credit to small firms through existing financial intermediaries. Using the program eligibility rule to identify the effect on target firms, I find that target firms' total bank debt increased by 8 cents for every dollar of program financing provided to the banks. This effect is larger when the intermediary bank is more likely to lend to smaller firms according to observable bank characteristics. The third essay evaluates empirically the effect of credit history disclosure on the financial position of a sample of manufacturing firms in Argentina. Results indicate that credit history disclosure has a negative impact in the ability of firms to raise external finance when firms are exposed to a high liquidity risk. by Daniel Paravisini. Ph.D. 2006-03-29T18:41:11Z 2006-03-29T18:41:11Z 2005 2005 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32400 61690882 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 116 p. 6759225 bytes 6766265 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Essays on banking and corporate finance
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