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Banking on Experience. Capital Reallocation, Asset Knowledge, and the Structure of Credit Contracts
The firm sector continuously engages in the reallocation of physical capital. We study the implications for credit market outcomes of banks' engagement in borrowing firms' capital reallocation. We develop a model in which banks' experience with the reallocation opportunities of physical capital raises their ability to recover liquidation values after firm defaults and asset reallocations, diluting banks' incentives to monitor borrowers. To test the model, we then construct an empirical measure of banks' engagement in capital reallocation using US loan-level data matched with firm-level data ...
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Estimating Occupation- and Location-Specific Wages over the Life Cycle
In this paper we develop a novel method to project location-specific life-cycle wages for all occupations listed in the Occupational Outlook Handbook from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Our method consists of two steps. In the first step, we use individual-level data from the Current Population Survey to estimate the average number of years of potential labor market experience that is associated with each percentile of the education-level specific wage distribution. In the second step, we map this estimated average years of experience to the wage-level percentiles reported in the ...