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Although the cost of financial distress is a central issue in capital structure and credit risk studies, reliable estimates of its size are difficult to come by. This paper proposes a novel method of extracting the cost of default from the change in the market value of a firm's assets upon...
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Intuition suggests that firms with higher cash holdings should be 'safer' and have lower credit spreads. Yet empirically, the correlation between cash and spreads is robustly positive. This puzzling finding can be explained by the precautionary motive for saving cash, which in our model causes...
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We examine how equity-market frictions that restrict pessimistic trading, such as short-sale constraints, affect assessments of default risk. We find that these frictions decrease the usefulness of equity-market variables for identifying defaulting firms but increase their usefulness for...
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The paper analyzes the characteristics of bankruptcy procedures that may impact on creditors’ recoveries. We propose … bankrupt SMEs. Several bankruptcy rules are associated with higher recoveries: namely, accessibility of the procedure … 132 legal indexes accounting for the main functions of bankruptcy codes: namely, the accessibility of the procedures …
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