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document higher direct flotation costs, but also improved stock market liquidity after public offerings and standby rights … relative to uninsured rights. We find that blockholder renouncements to subscribe to new shares and stock market liquidity are … that public offerings are cost effective and more liquidity improving than standby rights whereas an uninsured rights …
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We examine how ownership concentration and the separation of ownership and control affect market liquidity in France …. We find that firms with a large insider blockholder exhibit significantly lower liquidity. Different methods of … concentrating control affect liquidity in different ways. Pyramid structures negatively affect liquidity for all pyramiding firms …
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document higher direct flotation costs, but also improved stock market liquidity after public offerings and standby rights … relative to uninsured rights. We find that blockholder renouncements to subscribe to new shares and stock market liquidity are … that public offerings are cost effective and more liquidity improving than standby rights whereas an uninsured rights …
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We analyze a Principal-Agent model of an insurer who faces an adverse selection problem. He is unable to observe if his client has a high risk or a low risk of having an accident. At the underwriting of the contract, the insurer requests the client to declare his risk. After that, the former can...
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We study imperfect competition between insurers in a multiple-risk environment. In the absence of asymmetric information, equilibria are efficient, and we determine the degrees of specialization under which the specialized insurers are able or unable to capture the surplus. We show in contrast...
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We analyze markets where insurers are better informed about risk than consumers. We show that even competitive markets may result in insufficient information revelation and inefficient insurance coverage. This explains why certain risky consumers remain uninsured and why certain market segments...
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Cet article examine en détail les allocations d’assurance de second-rang dans une économie soumise à l’antisélection. Partant d’une extension naturelle du modèle classique, nous supposons une perception imparfaite du risque. Nous caractérisons les contraintes qui s’exercent sur la...
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This article deals with optimal insurance contracts in the framework of imprecise probabilities and adverse selection. Agents differ not only in the objective risk they face but also in the perception of risk. In monopoly, a range of configurations that VNM preferences preclude appears: a...
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