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    The Irish Risky Lending Gap


    Connor, Gregory (2009) The Irish Risky Lending Gap. National University of Ireland Maynooth. (Unpublished)

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    Abstract

    This paper develops a simple model of the gap between socially and privately optimal bank lending when a bank has an overhang of impaired loans, and analyzes government policies designed to close this gap. The impaired loans have risky cash fows but observable market values. A number of basic concepts are explicated including the risky lending gap, the capital component and asset risk component of the risky lending gap, capital injections versus asset purchases as policy tools, decomposition of the e¤ects of asset purchases into loan substitution and risk absorption e¤ects, the supply schedule of risky lending, the no-lending trap, and a risk-capital metric for comparing the various policy choices. The model is calibrated to match the cur- rent Irish banking environment and some tentative policy implications are suggested.

    Item Type: Other
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Finance and Accounting
    Item ID: 1582
    Depositing User: Ms Sandra Doherty
    Date Deposited: 15 Oct 2009 14:46
    Publisher: National University of Ireland Maynooth
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      Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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