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Flexible Prices and Leverage
D'Acunto, Francesco; Liu, Ryan; Pflueger, Carolin; … - 2017
The frequency with which firms adjust output prices helps explain persistent differences in capital structure across firms. Unconditionally, the most exible-price firms have a 19% higher long-term leverage ratio than the most sticky-price firms, controlling for known determinants of capital...
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Creditor passivity: the effects of bank competition and institutions on the strategic use of bankruptcy filings
Hainz, Christa - 2007
Why do banks remain passive? In a model of bank-firm relationship we study the trade-off a bank faces when having defaulting firms declared bankrupt. First, the bank receives a payoff if a firm is liquidated. Second, it provides information about a firm's type to its competitors. Thereby,...
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The Impact of Delay: Evidence from Formal Out-of-Court Restructuring
Srhoj, Stjepan; Kovač, Dejan; Shapiro, Jacob N.; … - 2021
Bankruptcy restructuring procedures are used in most legal systems to decide the fate of businesses facing financial … context of Croatia, which introduced a "pre-bankruptcy settlement" (PBS) process in the wake of the Great Recession of 2007 … effectively delays entry into the standard bankruptcy procedure, leads to a lower rate of survival among debtors as well as re …
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Equilibrium Theory of Banks' Capital Structure
Gale, Douglas; Gottardi, Piero - 2017
balance the benefits of the provision of liquidity services by bank deposits with the costs of bankruptcy. The risk in the …
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Quality of institutions, credit markets and bankruptcy
Hainz, Christa - 2004
The number of firm bankruptcies is surprisingly low in economies with poor institutions. We study a model of bank-firm relationship and show that the bank's decision to liquidate bad firms has two opposing effects. First, the bank receives a payoff if a firm is liquidated. Second, it loses the...
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Institutions, Financial Development, and Small Business Survival: Evidence from European Emerging Markets
Iwasaki, Ichiro; Kocenda, Evžen; Shida, Yoshisada - 2020
In this paper, we traced the survival status of 94,401 small businesses in 17 European emerging markets from 2007–2017 and empirically examined the determinants of their survival, focusing on institutional quality and financial development. We found that institutional quality and the level of...
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Institutions, Financial Development, and Small Business Survival : Evidence from European Emerging Markets
Iwasaki, Ichiro; Kočenda, Evžen; Shida, Yoshisada - 2021
In this paper, we traced the survival status of 94,401 small businesses in 17 European emerging markets from 2007–2017 and empirically examined the determinants of their survival, focusing on institutional quality and financial development. We found that institutional quality and the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315145
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Local Capital Scarcity and Small Firm Growth : Evidence from Real Estate Booms in China
Hau, Harald - 2019
In geographically segmented credit markets, local real estate booms can deteriorate the funding conditions for small manufacturing firms and undermine their competitiveness. Using exogenous variation in the administrative land supply across 172 Chinese cities, we show that higher predicted real...
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When Credit Dries Up: Job Losses in the Great Recession
Bentolila, Samuel; Jansen, Marcel; Jiménez, Gabriel; … - 2013
We use a unique dataset to estimate the impact of a large credit supply shock on employment in Spain. We exploit marked differences in banks' health at the onset of the Great Recession. Several weak banks were rescued by the State and they reduced credit more than other banks. We compare...
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Unexpected Loan Losses and Bank Capital in an Estimated DSGE Model of the Euro Area
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver - 2016
We develop a stylized DSGE model in which banks face capital regulation and their loan portfolios are subject to non-diversifiable losses due to aggregate shocks. The framework is used to explore the importance of the interaction between macroeconomic conditions, credit default and bank...
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