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This paper provides a theory for the choice of an organizational structure by the headquarters of a unitary structure concerned about overload. The headquarters can avoid overload by delegating operational decisions to divisions, i.e., moving the firm to a multidivisional structure. We show that...
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The volume of credit granted in the form of syndicated loans saw a marked downturn in 2008. This article seeks to understand how certain firms were nonetheless able to benefit from larger facilities or a lower interest rate than others. Using a sample of syndicated loans issued in 2008 in North...
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Financial theory indicates that banks dependent on external resources and/or financially fragile have more difficulties in refinancing their operations of credit supply, due to the informational problems they face and/or they cause. In this context, this study tests the hypothesis that the...
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The recommendations of Basel II impose to banks the use of the "hard" information in the decision making process of SMEs loans. These banks must choose between replacing the "soft" information, already used, by the "hard" information and combining the two forms of information. This thesis...
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The research shows that banking relationships are important to lending. However, few studies focus on the banking relationships in syndicated loans, although these loans have became a major source of financing. The last financial crisis clearly shows the impacts of credit rationing and...
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and Stiglitz 'model. In this case, we show that the optimal contract exhibits a deductible for the high health risk type … low health risk type. …
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We consider the problem of optimal risk sharing of some given total risk between two economic agents characterized by … law-invariant monetary utility functions or equivalently, law-invariant risk measures. We first prove existence of an … optimal risk sharing allocation which is in addition increasing in terms of the total risk. We next provide an explicit …
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The last five years have witnessed a great momentum in the research into measures of financial risk. After many years …-friendly solutions have been proposed. These new measures of risk should be of great interest for investors, financial institutions as … perspective across a wide selection of topics, ranging from the critique of some currently used methods, like Value at Risk, to …
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of assets with short-selling where there is risk and ambiguity. Agents have Bewley’s incomplete preferences. As an … of the risk adjusted sets of probabilities intersect. The more risk averse, the more ambiguity averse the agents, the …
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committee’s meetings. The risk of losing face, which is not felt in the same way by the attendees depending on their status, is … a central motivation for this phenomenon. Directors perceive a risk that their impressions are cynically managed. Then … reflexive social control: the actors who report to the committee criticize themselves. Risk leads them to self-discipline; Trust …
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