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Using a unique data set from the Czech Republic for 1994-2003, this study examines the relationship between a firm’s liquidity constraints and its supply linkages with multinational corporations (MNCs). The empirical analysis indicates that Czech firms supplying MNCs are less credit...
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firm's earnings, stock returns, and managerial ownership, because governance impacts the firm's risk-return structure. In … particular, the strictness of corporate governance is negatively related to earnings and positively to ß;. Various empirical …
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Which investment model best fits firm-level data? To answer this question we estimate alternative models using Compustat data. Surprisingly, the two best-performing specifications are based on Hayashi's (1982) model. This model's foremost implication, that Q is a sufficient statistic for...
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The best predictor of current investment at the firm level is lagged investment. This lagged-investment effect is empirically more important than the cash-flow and Q effects combined. We show that the specification of investment adjustment costs proposed by Christiano, Eichenbaum and Evans...
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each asset carries an endogenous reputational benefit or cost, which may lead to systematic mispricing if asset supply is …
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auction design to minimize mispricing. In our empirical study, we find support for our theoretical predictions. We show that …
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We investigate the pricing of ‘Brady’ bonds that are issued by the governments of five developing countries as part of debt and debt service reduction agreements. We first present a measure of credit quality that takes account of the individual features of each bond and is comparable across...
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We consider the release of information by a firm when the manager has discretion regarding the timing of its release. While it is well known that firms appear to delay the release of bad news, we examine how external information about the state of the economy (or the industry) affects this...
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We consider the strategic timing of information releases in a dynamic disclosure model. Because investors don’t know whether or when the firm is informed, the firm will not necessarily disclose immediately. We show that bad market news can trigger the immediate release of information by firms....
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This paper documents evidence consistent with informed trading by individual investors around earnings announcements … positive (negative) abnormal returns on and after earnings announcement dates. We decompose the abnormal returns into a … information. We also examine the behavior of individuals after the earnings announcement and find that they trade in the opposite …
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