Recovery Dynamics: An Explanation From Bank Lending and Entrepreneur Entry /

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Author / Creator:Hu, Yunzhi, author.
Imprint:2017.
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017
Description:1 electronic resource (79 pages)
Language:English
Format: E-Resource Dissertations
Local Note:School code: 0330
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11715068
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Other authors / contributors:University of Chicago. degree granting institution.
ISBN:9780355078091
Notes:Advisors: Douglas Diamond; Zhiguo He Committee members: Lars Peter Hansen; Anil Kashyap.
Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.
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Summary:Economic recoveries can be slow, fast, or involve double dips. This paper provides an explanation based on the dynamic interactions between bank lending standards and firm entry selection. In the model, bank lending standards refer to both how banks screen borrowers with unknown quality and whether well-qualified borrowers are credit rationed, and firm entry selection refers to the mechanism through which financing conditions select firms of different quality to enter the lending market. Recoveries are slower when high-quality borrowers postpone their investments, which occurs if the borrower pool has lower quality on average. Double dips can occur when banks endogenously produce information, which increases waiting benefits discontinuously. The model is consistent with both aggregate- and industry-level data.