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This paper proposes a simple homogeneous dynamic model of investment and corporate risk management for a financially … constrained firm. Following Froot, Scharfstein, and Stein (1993), we define a corporation's risk management as the coordination of … investment and financing decisions. In our model, corporate risk management involves internal liquidity management, financial …
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"Risk management" in securities markets refers to the oversight of portfolio managers and professional traders when … they trade on behalf of investors in security markets. Monitoring of their trading performance, profit and loss, and risk …
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risk sharing-together with their interaction. In our general equilibrium model, risk sharing brought by financial … in terms of risk, capital scarcity and size, we find important differences in the effect of financial integration on …
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COVID-19 has demonstrated the challenges that policymakers, insurers, businesses, and employees face when disaster assistance programs are developed after the pandemic has already started. There is now an opportunity to design and implement effective and efficient solutions to manage the...
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We study how risk management through hedging impacts firms and competition among firms in the life insurance industry … hedging. Post reform impacted firms have lower risk and fewer negative income shocks. Product market competition is also … financial distress to decrease risk and become more competitive …
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We develop a theory of bank board risk committees. With this theory, such committees are valuable even though there is … no expectation that bank risk is lower if the bank has a well-functioning risk committee. As predicted by our theory (1 …) many large and complex banks voluntarily chose to have a risk committee before the Dodd-Frank Act forced bank holding …
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Irrigation in the Eastern US receives little attention compared to the West, but farmers in humid states of the US, traditionally reliant on rainfall, have more than tripled irrigation since 1978. We examine this trend in Illinois where there has been a nearly threefold increase in center pivot...
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The average cash to assets ratio for U.S. industrial firms increases by 129% from 1980 to 2004. Because of this increase in the average cash ratio, American firms at the end of the sample period can pay back their debt obligations with their cash holdings, so that the average firm has no...
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setup in the United States underscore the importance of enhancing systemic risk oversight and building effective …
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