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We focus on the economies of the North Atlantic Core during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and find that an impressive variety of local financial institutions emerged to supply the needs of SMEs wherever there was sufficient demand for their services. Although these intermediaries...
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The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...
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Today the vast majority of multi-owner firms in the United States are corporations, but that was not the case in the past. Before the advent of the income tax, tort litigation, and significant federal regulation, entrepreneurs more often than not chose to organize as partnerships, a form that...
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frictions are costly equity issuance and incomplete markets. We show that the marginal source of external financing on an on …
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We develop a dynamic model of platform economy where tokens derive value by facilitating transactions among users and the platform conducts optimal token-supply policy. Token supply increases when new tokens are issued to finance platform growth and to reward platform owners. Token supply...
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consumption, portfolio allocation, financing, investment, and business exit decisions. The optimal capital structure is determined …
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investment and financing decisions. In our model, corporate risk management involves internal liquidity management, financial … external cost of financing; 3) the firm's liquidation value; 4) the opportunity cost of holding cash; 5) investment adjustment …
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obtained financing, and finds that formal institutions, such as banks and securities markets, played only a very limited role …
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Firms face uncertain financing conditions and are exposed to the risk of a sudden rise in financing costs during … issuance, risk management, and payout policies) for a financially constrained firm facing time-varying external financing costs … financing opportunities also induce firms to rationally time the equity market, even if they have no immediate needs for cash …
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We develop a model of investment timing under uncertainty for a financially constrained firm. Facing external financing …
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