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Theoretically, corporate debt is economically equivalent to safe debt minus a put option on the firm’s assets. We empirically show that indeed portfolios of long Treasuries and short traded put options ("pseudo bonds") closely match the properties of traded corporate bonds. Pseudo bonds...
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We investigate whether cultural differences between professional decision-makers affect financial contracts in a large dataset of international syndicated bank loans. We find that lead banks offer smaller loans at a higher interest rate to more culturally distant borrowers. Furthermore, lead...
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Governments throughout Eastern Europe have been singularly unsuccessful in dealing with large loss-making SOEs. A more promising approach would create an incentive framework and legal environment where the SOE's major non-government creditor can take the lead in initiating restructuring and the...
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This paper examines the link between liquidity constraints and investment behaviour on the one hand, and firm size on … have investment functions which are more sensitive to liquidity constraints than do the larger enterprises. These results …
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there is a relation in terms of both industry growth rates and shares of output devoted to R&D. Investment in R&D rather …
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We analyse investment behaviour of the population of medium and large industrial firms located in the Czech Republic in … 1992–5. We examine the relevance of alternative models of investment and test if investment behaviour varies across … control for the significant seasonal variation in investment. The data indicate that foreign-owned companies invest the most …
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Identifying the impacts of liquidity shocks on spending decisions is difficult methodologically but important for theory, practice, and policy. Using seven different methods on microenterprise loan applicants, we find striking results. Borrowers report uses of loan proceeds strategically, and...
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-09), banking shocks accounted for about 20% of the fall in US and EA GDP, and for more than half of the fall in EA investment and …
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We document three new facts about gender differences in executive compensation. First, female executives receive lower share of incentive pay in total compensation relative to males. This difference accounts for 93% of the gender gap in total pay. Second, the compensation of female executives...
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Mutual funds are significant blockholders in many corporations. Concerns that funds vote in a pro-management manner to garner lucrative pensions contracts led the SEC to mandate the disclosure of proxy votes. We present a model of mutual fund voting in the presence of potential business ties. We...
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