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Banks and Loan Sales: Marketing Non-Marketable Assets / Gary Gorton, George Pennacchi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gorton, Gary.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w3551.
- NBER working paper series no. w3551
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bank loans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Banks and Loan Sales
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1990.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1990.
- Summary:
- A defining characteristic of bank loans is that they are not resold once created. Yet, in 1989 about $240 billion of commercial and industrial loans were sold, compared to trivial amounts five years earlier. Selling loans without explicit guarantee or recourse is inconsistent with theories of the existence of financial intermediation. What has changed to make bank loans marketable? In this paper we test for the presence of implicit contractual features of bank loan sales contracts that could explain this inconsistency. In addition, the effect of technological progress on the reduction of information asymmetries between loan buyers and loan sellers is considered. The paper tests for the presence of these features and effects using a sample of over 800 recent loan sales.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- December 1990.
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