FIRN Seminar:  Alberto Martin, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

FIRN is the premier network of finance researchers and PhD students across Australia and recently New Zealand.  Researchers from all of the major schools, departments and universities who offer research programs across the various topic areas of finance are members of FIRN.The purpose of FIRN is to provide a strong, cohesive and fiscially efficient approach toward supporting research and advancements in the Australian finance academic community.  FIRN’s program of events and initiatives aims to develop better communication and networking across the sector, better research outcomes, better educated PhD students, better skilled academics, stronger international relationships and a stronger future.

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Working with the large FIRN member institutions we have developed a virtual seminar series where all FIRN members can participate.  The seminars will be via zoom and will be about an hour long, comprising presentation followed by moderated Q&A.   <h2>In collaboration with UTS, FIRN  invites you to a virtual seminar presented by Alberto Martin from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics</h2>Title: Collateral Booms and Information Depletion
Abstract: We develop a new theory of information production during credit booms. Entrepreneurs need credit to undertake investment projects, some of which enable them to divert resources. Lenders can protect themselves from such diversion in two ways: collateralization and costly screening, which generates durable information about projects. In equilibrium, the collateralization screening mix depends on the value of aggregate collateral. High collateral values make it possible to reallocate resources towards productive projects, but they also crowd out screening. This has important dynamic implications. During credit booms driven by high collateral values (e.g., real estate booms), economic activity expands but the economy’s stock of information on existing projects gets depleted. As a result, collateral-driven booms end in deep crises and slow recoveries: when booms end, investment is constrained both by the lack of collateral and by the lack of information on existing projects, which takes time to rebuild. We provide empirical support for the mechanism using US firm-level data.
Moderated by: Diego Puente Moncayo, University of Technology Sydney
All FIRN members are welcome to this event.   Please register your interest and you will be sent an email the day before with details of how to obtain the zoom code.

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