'Keeping It Personal' or 'Getting Real'? On the Drivers and Effectiveness of Personal versus Real Loan Guarantees | Zendy

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'Keeping It Personal' or 'Getting Real'? On the Drivers and Effectiveness of Personal versus Real Loan Guarantees

Author(s) -

Sergio Mayordomo,

Antonio Moreno,

Steven Ongena,

María RodríguezMoreno

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

ssrn electronic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1556-5068

DOI - 10.2139/ssrn.2731833

Subject(s) - loan , personally identifiable information , business , personal injury , actuarial science , internet privacy , personal protective equipment , finance , computer security , computer science , law , political science , medicine , disease , covid-19 , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)

Little is known about the drivers and effectiveness of personal as opposed to real loan guarantees provided by firms. This paper studies a dataset of 477,209 loan contracts granted over the 2006-2014 period by one Spanish financial institution consisting of several distinguishable organisational units. While personal guarantees are mostly driven by the economic environment as reflected in firm and bank conditions, real guarantees are mostly explained by loan characteristics. In response to higher capital requirements imposed by the European authorities in 2011, personal guarantee requirements increased significantly more than their real counterparts. Our results imply that personal guarantees can discipline firms in their risk-taking, but their overuse can limit this positive effect and damage their performance.

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