Bank Lending in the Knowledge Economy /

We study bank portfolio allocations during the transition of the real sector to a knowledge economy in which firms use less tangible capital and invest more in intangible assets. We show that, as firms shift toward intangible assets that have lower collateral values, banks reallocate their portfolio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni
Other Authors: Kadyrzhanova, Dalida, Minoiu, Camelia, Ratnovski, Lev
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/234
Online Access:Full text available on IMF