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bond proceeds is used for refinancing ordinary debt, continuing ongoing projects, or initiating projects without green … aspects that are novel for the issuer. Only 2% of corporate and municipal green bond proceeds initiate projects with clearly … yields, announcement effects, green bond index inclusion, and green bond fund holdings are uncorrelated with additionality …
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We use arbitrage activity in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets to characterize the frictions and constraints facing intermediaries. The average pairwise correlation between the 29 arbitrage spreads that we study is 21%. These low correlations are inconsistent with canonical...
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portfolios at different speeds. To understand its implications for bond valuation, we develop a general equilibrium model which … model predicts a novel overshooting pattern: when the central bank unwinds its bond purchase, slow adjustment by long …-term investors requires liquidity traders to absorb the imbalance, who demand a higher risk premium that creates excessive bond price …
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We study the effects of monetary-policy-induced changes in Tobin's q on corporate investment and capital structure. We develop a theory of the mechanism, provide empirical evidence, evaluate the ability of the quantitative theory to match the evidence, and quantify the relevance for monetary...
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We study sources and implications of undiversified portfolios in a production-based asset pricing model with financial frictions. Households take concentrated positions in a single firm exposed to idiosyncratic shocks because managerial effort requires equity stakes, and because investors gain...
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is associated with municipal bond yield spreads that are higher by around 15 basis points per annum (bps), the effect … little effect for investment grade bond spreads, and with conditional expected returns on stocks that are higher by around 45 …
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This paper measures diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) using proprietary data on survey responses used to compile the Best Companies to Work For list. We identify 13 of the 58 questions as being related to DEI, and aggregate the responses to form our DEI measure. This variable has low...
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Secured debt--a debt contract that offers security to creditors in the form of collateralized assets--has been a cornerstone of credit markets in most societies since antiquity. The ability to seize and sell collateral reduces the creditor's expected losses when the debtor defaults on a promised...
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All of asset-pricing theory currently stems from one key assumption: price equals expected discounted payoff. And much of what we think we know about discount rates comes from studying a particular kind of expected payoff: the earnings forecasts in analyst reports. Researchers typically access...
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Firms' perceived cost of green capital has decreased since the rise of sustainable investing. Green and brown firms perceived their cost of capital to be the same before 2016, but after the post-2016 surge in sustainable investing, green firms perceived their cost of capital to be on average 1...
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