A theory of domestic and international trade finance /
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Author / Creator: | Ahn, JaeBin, author. |
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Imprint: | [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, ©2011. |
Description: | 1 online resource (36 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | IMF working paper ; WP/11/262 IMF working paper ; WP/11/262. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12499659 |
Summary: | This paper provides a theory model of trade finance to explain the "great trade collapse." The model shows that, first, the riskiness of international transactions rises relative to domestic transactions during economic downturns, and second, the exclusive use of a letter of credit in international transactions exacerbates a collapse in trade during a financial crisis. The basic model considers banks' optimal screening decisions in the presence of counterparty default risks. In equilibrium, banks will maintain a higher precision screening test for domestic firms and a lower precision screening test for foreign firms, which constitutes the main mechanism of the model. |
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Item Description: | At head of title: Research Department. Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed November 23, 2011). "November 2011." |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (36 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 1283554437 9781283554435 9781463927165 1463927169 1463974396 9781463974398 9786613866882 6613866881 1463946848 9781463946845 |