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The Economics of Bankruptcy and the Transition to a Market Economy

Abel, István; Gatsios, Konstantine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

liquidation and reorganization during economic transformation. The reforms of the financial system and other important factors in … economic transformation influence the impact of bankruptcy regulation in a way distorting it towards liquidation. …This paper looks at simple decision rules in bankruptcy procedures. It describes special issues of enterprise …

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Risky Investments with Limited Commitment

Cooley, Thomas F; Marimon, Ramon; Quadrini, Vincenzo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Over the last three decades there has been a dramatic increase in the size of the financial sector and in the compensation of financial executives. This increase has been associated with greater risk-taking and the use of more complex financial instruments. Parallel to this trend, the...

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Does Firm Size Matter? Evidence on the Impacts of Liquidity Constraints on Firm Investment Behaviour in Germany

Audretsch, David B; Elston, Julie Ann - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper examines the link between liquidity constraints and investment behaviour on the one hand, and firm size on the other for a large sample of German firms over the time period 1968-85. The results indicate that smaller firms tend to have investment functions which are more sensitive to...

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Political Connections and Preferential Access to Finance: The Role of Campaign Contributions

Claessens, Stijn; Feijen, Erik; Laeven, Luc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using novel indicators of political connections constructed from campaign contribution data, we show that Brazilian firms that provided contributions to (elected) federal deputies experienced higher stock returns than firms that don’t around the 1998 and 2002 elections. This suggests...

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Multiple Lenders and Corporate Distress: Evidence on Debt Restructuring

Brunner, Antje; Krahnen, Jan Pieter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

In the recent theoretical literature on lending risk, the common pool problem in multi-bank relationships has been analysed extensively. In this Paper we address this topic empirically, relying on a unique panel dataset that includes detailed credit-fie information on distressed lending...

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Modeling default correlation in a US retail loan portfolio

Bams, Dennis; Pisa, Magdalena; Wolff, Christian C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper generalizes the existing asymptotic single-factor model to address issues related to industry heterogeneity, default clustering and parameter uncertainty of capital requirement in US retail loan portfolios. We argue that the Basel II capital requirement overstates the riskiness of...

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Incentives to Innovate and the Decision to Go Public or Private

Ferreira, Daniel; Manso, Gustavo; Silva, André C. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We model the impact of public and private ownership structures on firms' incentives to choose innovative projects. Innovation requires the exploration of new ideas with potential advantages but unknown probability of success. We show that it is optimal to go public when firms wish to exploit the...

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Finance and Development: The Case of Southern Italy

Faini, Riccardo; Giannini, Curzio; Ingrosso, Fulvio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

We look at the role of the financial sector in the context of the relatively backward regions of Southern Italy (the so-called Mezzogiorno). Commercial banks in the South typically have higher operating costs and charge higher interest rates than Northern banks. Econometric analysis on a large...

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Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment

Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Information asymmetries are important in theory but difficult to identify in practice. We estimate the presence and importance of adverse selection and moral hazard in a consumer credit market using a new field experiment methodology. We randomized 58,000 direct mail offers issued by a major...

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The Misfortune of Non-financial Firms in a Financial Crisis: Disentangling Finance and Demand Shocks

Tong, Hui; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

If a non-financial firm does not do well in a financial crisis, it could be due to either a contraction of demand for its output or a contraction of supply of external finance. We propose a framework to assess the relative importance of the two shocks, making use of a measure of a firm's...

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