ECO 304L Lecture 9: Lecture 9 Notes

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Pricing risk: charging higher interest rates for riskier loans. Diversification: holding a variety of unrelated assets to reduce risk to lenders. Debt contract promises funds will be repaid with interest. Creditors get paid before owners if a business goes bankrupt or out of business. Insolvent: if a business does not have enough money to pay off all its creditors. Equity: hat business is worth to owners. Equity = alue of assets - alue of liabilities. Limited liability: hen assets are insufficient to cover liabilities, owners do not have to contribute additional funds to make up the shortfall. Hen liabilities > assets, equity is zero under limited liability. Moral hazard: lack of incentive to guard against risk when one is protected from its consequences (by limited liability or insurance) Leverage: using borrowed money to purchase an asset. Risky because creditor may not get paid if asset values fall. Mortgages: borrowed funds used to purchase a house.

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