Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/205227 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
SAFE Working Paper No. 264
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, SAFE - Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
A common prediction of macroeconomic models of credit market frictions is that the tightness of financial constraints is countercyclical. As a result, theory implies a negative collateralizability premium; that is, capital that can be used as collateral to relax financial constraints provides insurance against aggregate shocks and commands a lower risk compensation compared with non-collateralizable assets. We show that a longshort portfolio constructed using a novel measure of asset collateralizability generates an average excess return of around 8% per year. We develop a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms and financial constraints to quantitatively account for the collateralizability premium.
Subjects: 
Cross-Section of Returns
Financial Frictions
Collateral Constraint
JEL: 
E2
E3
G12
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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