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We use a unique design feature of a survey of Italian firms to study the causal effect of inflation expectations on firms' economic decisions. In the survey, a randomly chosen subset of firms is repeatedly treated with information about recent inflation whereas other firms are not. This...
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's systematic equity risk and falls with the firm's unsystematic equity risk. Further, an increase in the firm's total equity risk …
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by the firms at their financing stage for whether inflows of foreign debt may crowd out foreign equity or the other way …
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Banks can create liquidity because their deposits are fragile and prone to runs. Increased uncertainty can make deposits excessively fragile in which case there is a role for outside bank capital. Greater bank capital reduces liquidity creation by the bank but enables the bank to survive more...
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This paper explores the necessary conditions for outside equity financing when insiders, that is managers or …
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Costs of equity for individual firms are estimated in a Bayesian framework using several factor-based pricing models …. Substantial prior uncertainty about mispricing often produces an estimated cost of equity close to that obtained with mispricing …'s cost of equity, although uncertainty about betas is nearly as important …
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The ability of capital markets to distinguish firms of different value by the size of their initial equity offerings is … attenuated when insiders can sell equity more than once. A model is developed in which there is price risk from holding equity …
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This paper presents an information-theoretic, infinite horizon model of the equity issue decision. The model …'s predictions about stock price behavior and issue timing explain most of the stylized facts in the empirical literature: (a) equity … firms, (b) equity issues on average are preceded by an abnormal rise in the market, and (c) the stock price drops …
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Countercyclical capital buffers (CCyBs) are an old idea recently resurrected. CCyBs compel banks at the core of financial systems to accumulate capital during expansions so that they are better able to sustain operations during downturns. To gauge the potential impact of modern CCyBs, we compare...
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Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are sales of blockchain-based digital tokens associated with specific platforms or assets. Since 2014 ICOs have emerged as a new financing instrument, with some parallels to IPOs, venture capital, and pre-sale crowdfunding. We examine the relationship between issuer...
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