Unlocking Credit
Risk Management Post Financial Crisis: A Period of Monetary Easing
ISBN: 978-1-78441-027-8, eISBN: 978-1-78441-026-1
Publication date: 1 October 2014
Abstract
Pledging collateral to secure loans is a prominent feature in financing contracts around the world. Existing theories disagree on why borrowers pledge collateral. It is even more challenging to understand why in some countries collateral coverage exceeds, for example, 300% of the value of a loan. This study looks at the association between collateral coverage and country-level governance and various institutional proxies. It investigates the economic implications of steep collateral coverage and sketches policy options to lower ex-ante asymmetric information and ex-post agency problems. Within this framework, should a lender collect the debt forcibly on default and liquidated assets fetch prices below outstanding loan values, the lender’s loss is covered through credit insurance, which would significantly reduce the need for steep collateral coverage. This proposal may increase level of private credit, investment and growth; particularly, in a number of developing countries where collateral spread is the main inhibitor of finance.
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Citation
Mathur, I. and Marcelin, I. (2014), "Unlocking Credit", Risk Management Post Financial Crisis: A Period of Monetary Easing (Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis, Vol. 96), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 221-252. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1569-375920140000096009
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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