Intermediary Capital and the Credit Market

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Milton Harris

University of Chicago - Finance

Christian C. Opp

University of Rochester - Simon Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Marcus M. Opp

Stockholm School of Economics - Department of Finance; Swedish House of Finance

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Date Written: November 21, 2018

Abstract

We propose a tractable framework to examine the role of intermediary capital in the allocation and pricing of credit. In our model, regulated financial intermediaries compete with unregulated investors, targeting distributions of heterogeneous borrowers. We derive a sufficient statistic that characterizes intermediaries’ cross-sectional lending decisions and provide a novel intermediary asset pricing equation that accounts for the endogenous segmentation of marginal investors across securities. These formulae reveal the central role of intermediaries’ shadow cost of capital in both credit allocation and pricing. Our results can concurrently rationalize a broad array of empirical facts documented in the context of credit markets.

Keywords: Composition of credit, Bailouts, Credit rationing, Overinvestment, Crowding out, Intermediary asset pricing.

JEL Classification: G11, G12, G18, G21, G22, G23, G28

Suggested Citation

Harris, Milton and Opp, Christian C. and Opp, Marcus M., Intermediary Capital and the Credit Market (November 21, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2467761 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2467761

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Christian C. Opp

University of Rochester - Simon Business School ( email )

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Marcus M. Opp (Contact Author)

Stockholm School of Economics - Department of Finance ( email )

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