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Liquidity Squeeze, Abundant Funding and Macroeconomic Volatility
Kharroubi, Enisse - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2015
This paper studies the choice between building liquidity buffers and raising funding ex post, to deal with liquidity … shocks. We uncover the possibility of an inefficient liquidity squeeze equilibrium. Agents typically choose to build smaller … liquidity buffers when they expect cheap funding. However, when agents hold smaller liquidity buffers, they can raise less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210514
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Rediscovering the macroeconomic roots of financial stability policy: journey, challenges and a way forward
Borio, Claudio - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2011
The recent financial crisis has triggered a major rethink of analytical approaches and policy towards financial stability. The crisis has encouraged a sharper focus on systemic risk, the inclusion of a financial sector in macroeconomic models, a shift from a microprudential to a macroprudential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320630
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The financial turmoil of 2007-?: a preliminary assessment and some policy considerations
Borio, Claudio - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2008
The unfolding financial turmoil in mature economies has prompted the official and private sectors to reconsider policies, business models and risk management practices. Regardless of its future evolution, it already threatens to become one of the defining economic moments of the 21st century....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005127685
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Monetary policy, risk-taking channel and income structure: an empirical assessment of the French banking system
Eid, Samer - HAL - 2011
of assets, income and cash flows, or the abundant liquidity at a low cost. This paper studies the risk behavior of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898454
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Transition to Equilibrium in International Trades
Giraud, Gaël; Rochon, Céline - HAL - 2010
Theory of Money holds provided the economy is not trapped in a liquidity hole. The traditional theory of comparative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635004
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Private Equity investment performance : Do social ties between venture capitalists and CEOs matter
Bonnet, Christophe - HAL - 2001
Our area of interest is the relationship between Private Equity professionals and the CEOs of companies. Building on previous research on board-CEO relationship and on venture capital and management buyout governance, we aim at complementing the frequently used agency theory perspective by way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549128
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Corporate governance, value and performance of firms: New empirical results on convergence from a large international database
Krafft, Jackie; Qu, Yiping; Quatraro, Francesco; Ravix, … - HAL - 2013
This paper aims to revisit the link between corporate governance, value, and firm performance by focusing on convergence, understood as the way that non-US firms are adopting US best practice in terms of corporate governance, and the implications of this adoption. We examine theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607938
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Financial globalisation, governance and the evolution of the home bias
Kho, Bong-Chan; Stulz, René M; Warnock, Francis E - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2006
Despite the disappearance of formal barriers to international investment across countries, we find that the average home bias of US investors towards the 46 countries with the largest equity markets did not fall from 1994 to 2004 when countries are equally weighted but fell when countries are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005063331
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What do we know about delistings? A survey of the literature
Djama, Constant; Martinez, Isabelle; Serve, Stéphanie - HAL - 2012
Relative to the decision to go public, the decision to delist is less studied in the corporate finance literature despite its importance in the life of the firm. This article surveys the recent literature, both theoretical and empirical, regarding delisting in an international context...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736419
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Taxes on severance pay, corporate governance and golden handshakes
Llense, Fabienne - HAL - 2009
This paper puts forward an explanation of the rapid increase in golden handshake provision in Europe over the last ten years, based on both enhanced investor protection and attractive tax codes for severance pay. This article takes up a framework in which asymmetric information about the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738557