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Zombie Lending : Theoretical, International and Historical Perspectives

Acharya, Viral V.; Crosignani, Matteo; Eisert, Tim; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper surveys the theory on zombie lending incentives and the consequences of zombie lending for the real economy. It also offers a historical perspective by reviewing the growing empirical evidence on zombie lending along three dimensions: (i) the role of under-capitalized banks, (ii)...

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Rollover Risk and Market Freezes

Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

The crisis of 2007-09 has been characterized by a sudden freeze in the market for short-term, secured borrowing. We present a model that can explain a sudden collapse in the amount that can be borrowed against finitely-lived assets with little credit risk. The borrowing in this model takes the...

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Creditor rights and corporate risk-taking

Acharya, Viral V. - 2009

bankruptcy reduce corporate risk-taking. In cross-country analysis, we find that stronger creditor rights induce greater …

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Cash Holdings and Credit Risk

Acharya, Viral V. - 2011

Intuition suggests that firms with higher cash holdings are safer and should have lower credit spreads. Yet empirically, the correlation between cash and spreads is robustly positive and higher for lower credit ratings. This puzzling finding can be explained by the precautionary motive for...

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Bankruptcy Exemption of Repo Markets : Too Much Today for Too Little Tomorrow?

Acharya, Viral V.; Anshuman, V. Ravi; Viswanathan, S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

-and-repurchase (repo) contracts. Exemption from an automatic stay in bankruptcy enables financial intermediaries to raise greater liquidity … underlying the contracts. When exempt from bankruptcy, creditors of highly leveraged financial intermediaries respond to such … bankruptcy, can be not only ex-post optimal, but also ex-ante optimal, especially for illiquid collateral with high exposure to …

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The Internal Governance of Firms

Acharya, Viral V. - 2009

We develop a model of internal governance where the self-serving actions of top management are limited by the potential reaction of subordinates. Internal governance can mitigate agency problems and ensure that firms have substantial value, even with little or no external governance by...

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