We relate the firm legal structure to the degree of credit advantage of the headquarters. We argue that subsidiary-based firms are born as the outcome of a process of agglomeration around firms with better credit advantage. Therefore, subsidiary based firms have better credit advantage than...

This paper explores the spillover effects of Hurricane Katrina on corporate bonds through the liquidations of bond holdings by property and reinsurance companies exposed to the Katrina shock. We find that the sales of exposed property and reinsurance companies create a persistent negative price...

We study the effect of credit default swap (CDS) on the corporate bond market. We argue that CDS, by reducing the need of investors to liquidate the bonds in the face of credit deterioration of the issuer, reduces fire sale risk and provides bond liquidity. Given that bond investors are...

We study how information flows within international financial conglomerates and how such a flow reduces the transmission of liquidity crisis due to fire-sales. We focus on the role of international institutional investors affiliated with banks during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. We...

We study the effect of investment horizon clienteles on the IPO market. We start from the premise – that we support with evidence – that IPO stocks are very liquid in the after-market. Therefore, short-term investors should have a higher reservation price for them than long-term investors....