oes the advance of securitization—a key element in the evolution from banking to “shadow banking” (Pozsar et al. 2010)1—signal the decline of traditional banking? Not necessarily, for banks play a vital role in the securitization process at a number of stages, including the provision of credit enhancements.2 Credit enhancements are protection, in the form of financial support, to cover losses o...

We study the effects of firm’s credit condition on (1) labor market performance and (2) the inflation and unemployment relationship, in a new monetarist model. Better credit condition has positive impact on labor market as firms save on financing cost, improve profitability, and thus create more vacancies. Inflation increases the financing cost and thus discourages job creation. On the other ha...

According to the financial accelerator model, a small monetary or other shock is amplified through credit market restrictions on small firms, and swings in balance sheets over the business cycle cause swings in small firms’ spending. This paper incorporates these notions in an empirical model of firm behavior. We use unit transaction cost of debt and rationed credit as indicators of balance she...

Corporate bond yields are sensitive to labor market conditions. During the 1929-2015 period, a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a widening of the Baa-Aaa credit spread by 13 basis points. This paper explores the impact of labor market conditions on credit risk, by incorporating defaultable debt into an otherwise standard Diamond-MortensenPissarides labor...

This paper investigates how the supplier’s bargaining power affects trade credit supply. We use a novel firm-level database of Chinese firms with unique information on the amount, terms, and payment history of trade credit extended to customers and detailed information on product market structure and clients-supplier relationships. We document that suppliers with weak bargaining power towards t...

Many pricing and risk management models need credit spread curves as an input. Given the small number of bonds outstanding per issuer the estimation of credit spread curves is not trivial in the corporate bond market. To ensure a sufficient number of bonds for the estimation procedure in many cases bonds in different currencies have to be used which implies that the estimation procedure has to ...

The market for securitized commercial mortgages is still fairly new, dating back only to the mid-1990s. As the market developed, and both rating agencies and investors became more comfortable with the product and the associated risks, the level of credit support behind given tranches steadily declined. At the same time on-the-run spreads also declined. This paper develops a series of models of ...

According to a Survey by the Society for Human Resource Management [6], 25% of human resource representatives interviewed in 1998 indicated that the companies they worked for ran credit checks on potential employees while the fraction increased to 43% in 2004. In this paper, we explore how such credit checks (information on observable credit market actions) might help separate workers with hete...

Both auditors and credit rating agencies have been linked to financial scandals in recent history. In the early 2000’s, several of the “big five” accounting firms issued favorable audit opinions to public companies employing deceptive accounting practices. Some of these companies even committed outright fraud. Once the investing public caught wind of these accounting irregularities, it lost tru...