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Browsing Working Papers by Subject "G18"
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Title:Optimal Debt Bias in Corporate Income Taxation
Author(s):SIMON, JennyDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:I present a rationale for a government to discriminate between debt and equity financing when taxing corporate income. For risk-averse entrepreneurs, equity generates more surplus than debt, because it provides financing ...
Title:Financial Crisis Resolution
Author(s):SCHROTH, JosefDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper studies a dynamic version of the Holmstrom-Tirole model of intermediated finance. I show that competitive equilibria are not constrained efficient when the economy experiences a financial crises. A pecuniary ...
Title:Interbank Market Liquidity and Central Bank Intervention
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena; GALE, DouglasDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We develop a simple model of the interbank market where banks trade a long term, safe asset. We show that when there is a lack of opportunities for banks to hedge aggregate and idiosyncratic liquidity shocks, the interbank ...