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- Title
The LOLR Policy and its Signaling Effect in a Time of Crisis.
- Authors
Li, Mei; Milne, Frank; Qiu, Junfeng
- Abstract
When a government implements an LOLR policy during a crisis, creditors can infer a bank's quality by whether the bank borrows government loans. We establish a formal model to study an LOLR policy in the presence of this signaling effect. We find that three equilibria exist: a separating equilibrium where only low quality banks borrow from the government and two pooling equilibria where both high and low quality banks do and do not borrow from the government. Further, we find that the government's lending rate serves an important signaling role and that hiding the identity of the banks that borrow government loans tends to encourage banks to do so. We also find two welfare effects of the LOLR policy: the liquidation cost saving and moral hazard. Depending on which effect dominates, the optimal LOLR policy differs.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT lending; MORAL hazard; DEBTOR &; creditor; CRISES; LIQUIDATION
- Publication
Journal of Financial Services Research, 2020, Vol 57, Issue 3, p231
- ISSN
0920-8550
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10693-019-00324-6