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Central counterparty clearing: constructing a framework for evaluation of risks and benefits

Ripatti, Kirsi - EconWPA - 2005

Counterparty Clearing has become increasingly popular in Europe, not just in derivatives markets, where, due to the high risk … the increased sophistication in clearing arrangements is the ongoing process of European economic integration, ie the euro … pan-European financial infrastructure for payments and securities clearing and settlement. Central counterparty clearing …

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The intraday price of money: evidence from the e-MID market

Baglioni, Angelo; Monticini, Andrea - EconWPA - 2005

We present a simple model, where intraday and overnight interest rates are linked by a no-arbitrage argument. The hourly interest rate is shown to be a function of the intraday term structure of the overnight rate. This property holds under both assumptions, where an explicit intraday market for...

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The dynamics of capital structure in transition economies

Nivorozhkin, Eugene - EconWPA - 2003

This paper uses a dynamic unrestricted capital structure model to examine the determinants of the private companies’ target financial leverage and the speed of adjustment to it in two transition economies, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. We explicitly model the adjustment of companies’...

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Corporate Finance in Europe from 1986 to 1996

DELBREIL, Michel; ESTEBAN, Ana; FRIDERICHS, Hans; … - EconWPA - 2000

After publishing its first report in September 1997, the Own Funds Working Group, in agreement with the European Committee of Central Balance Sheet Offices, decided to continue its work in order to gain a better understanding of the differences in financing structures between countries. To this...

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How Ownership Structure Affects Capital Structure and Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from East Asia

Driffield, Nigel; Mahambare, Vidya; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2005

Despite the seminal work of Claessens et al. (2002), who highlighted the role of ownership structure on firm performance in East Asia, the relationship between capital structure and ownership remains much unexplored. This is important, given recent empirical and theoretical work linking capital...

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How Ownership Structure Affects Capital Structure and Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from East Asia

Driffield, Nigel; Mahambare, Vidya; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2005

Despite the seminal work of Claessens et al. (2002), role of ownership structure on capital structure and firm performance in East Asian corporattions remains much unexplored. Within the framework of Bajaj et al. (1998), the present paper empirically examines the effects of a controlling manager...

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A Compositional Statistical Analysis of Capital per Worker

Larrosa, Juan Manuel - EconWPA - 2003

Most of economic literature has presented its analysis under the assumption of homogeneous capital stock composition. However, capital composition differs across countries. What has been the pattern of capital composition associated with World economies? I make an exploratory statistical...

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DETERMINANTS OF THE FIRM’S CAPITAL STRUCTURE - THE CASE OF THE VERY SMALL ENTERPRISES

BARBOSA, EVALDO GUIMARÃES; MORAES, CRISTIANA DE CASTRO - EconWPA - 2003

This paper seeks empirically to identify the determinants of the very small firms’ financial leverage. This is important because both these enterprises have been under-researched and research in the area has been troubled by samples biased towards very large enterprises. Results support...

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Imperfect Market or Imperfect Theory: A Unified Analytical Theory of Production and Capital Structure of Firms

Chen, Jing - EconWPA - 2005

We present a unified analytical theory of production and capital structure of firms. It is extended from an analytical theory of production, whose main result is an analytical formula of variable cost of production as a function of fixed cost and uncertainty. Problems on capital structure can be...

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Testing Static Tradeoff against Pecking Order Models of Capital Structure in Brazilian Firms

Medeiros, Otavio Ribeiro De; Daher, Cecilio Elias - EconWPA - 2004

We test two models with the purpose of finding the best empirical explanation for the capital structure of Brazilian firms. The models tested were developed to represent the Static Tradeoff Theory and the Pecking Order Theory. The sample consists of firms listed in the Sao Paulo (Brazil) stock...

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