Crashes and Collateralized Lending

45 Pages Posted: 21 Sep 2011 Last revised: 8 Feb 2023

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Jakub W. Jurek

University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Erik Stafford

Harvard Business School - Finance Unit

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Date Written: September 2011

Abstract

This paper develops a parsimonious static model for characterizing financing terms in collateralized lending markets. We characterize the systematic risk exposures for a variety of securities and develop a simple indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic crash risk exposure of the collateral. We then apply Modigliani and Miller's (1958) Proposition Two (MM) to split the cost of bearing this risk between the borrower and lender, resulting in a schedule of haircuts and financing rates. The model produces comparative statics and time-series dynamics that are consistent with the empirical features of repo market data, including the dramatic change in financing terms for structured products during the credit crisis of 2007-2008.

Suggested Citation

Jurek, Jakub W. and Stafford, Erik, Crashes and Collateralized Lending (September 2011). NBER Working Paper No. w17422, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1931193

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