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The Twilight Zone: OTC Regulatory Regimes and Market Quality
Leuz, Christian; Brüggemann, Ulf; Kaul, Aditya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We analyze a comprehensive sample of more than 10,000 U.S. stocks in the OTC market. As little is known about this market, we first characterize OTC firms by trading venue and provide evidence on survival, success, frequency of venue changes, reporting status, and trading activity. A large...
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Valuing Thinly-Traded Assets
Longstaff, Francis A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We model illiquidity as a restriction on the stopping rules investors can follow in selling assets, and apply this framework to the valuation of thinly-traded investments. We find that discounts for illiquidity can be surprisingly large, approaching 30 to 50 percent in some cases. Immediacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951368
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Leverage and Beliefs: Personal Experience and Risk Taking in Margin Lending
Voth, Hans-Joachim; Koudijs, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
What determines risk-bearing capacity and the amount of leverage in financial markets? Using unique archival data on collateralized lending, we show that personal experience can affect individual risk-taking and aggregate leverage. When an investor syndicate speculating in Amsterdam in 1772 went...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951446
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How Firms Use Domestic and International Corporate Bond Markets
Levine, Ross; Schmukler, Sergio; Gozzi, Juan Carlos; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper provides the first comprehensive documentation of the main features of corporate bond issues in domestic and … international bond markets have different characteristics, not explained by differences across firms or their country of origin … rate contracts. Moreover, a large proportion of firms remain active in domestic bond markets after accessing international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421976
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The Role of Mortgage Brokers in the Subprime Crisis
Hollifield, Burton; Berndt, Antje; Sandås, Patrik - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Prior to the subprime crisis, mortgage brokers originated about 65% of all subprime mortgages. Yet little is known about their behavior during the runup to the crisis. Using data from New Century Financial Corporation, we find that brokers earned an average revenue of $5,300 per funded loan. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008601693
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Rollover Risk and Market Freezes
Acharya, Viral V.; Gale, Douglas; Yorulmazer, Tanju - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008601707
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Is IPO Underperformance a Peso Problem?
Ang, Andrew; Gu, Li; Hochberg, Yael V. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Recent studies suggest that the underperformance of IPOs in the post-1970 sample may be a small sample effect or %u201CPeso%u201D problem. That is, IPO underperformance may result from observing too few star performers ex-post than were expected ex-ante. We develop a model of IPO performance...
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Impossible Frontiers
Lo, Andrew W.; Brennan, Thomas J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
A key result of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is that the market portfolio---the portfolio of all assets in which each asset's weight is proportional to its total market capitalization---lies on the mean-variance efficient frontier, the set of portfolios having mean-variance...
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Financially Constrained Stock Returns
Zhang, Lu; Livdan, Dmitry; Sapriza, Horacio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
More financially constrained firms are riskier and earn higher expected returns than less financially constrained firms, although this effect can be subsumed by size and book-to-market. Further, because the stochastic discount factor makes capital investment more procyclical, financial...
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Pseudo Market Timing and Predictive Regressions
Baker, Malcolm; Wurgler, Jeffrey; Taliaferro, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
to predict stock or bond market returns. Recent research argues that these results may be driven by an aggregate time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718099