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Buying to sell : private equity buyouts and industrial restructuring
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2013
We show how temporary ownership by private equity firms affects industry structure, competition and welfare. Temporary ownership leads to strong investment incentives because equilibrium resale prices are determined by buyers incentives to block rivals from obtaining assets. These incentives...
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Hedging climate change news
Engle, Robert F.; Giglio, Stefano; Lee, Heebum; Kelly, … - 2019 - This version: May 7, 2019
We propose and implement a procedure to dynamically hedge climate change risk. We extract innovations from climate news series that we construct through textual analysis of newspapers. We then use a mimicking portfolio approach to build climate change hedge portfolios. We discipline the exercise...
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
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Ownership concentration and share valuation : evidence from Germany
Edwards, Jeremy S. S.; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 1999
Concentrated ownership of large listed companies is widespread throughout the world, and Germany is typical in this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781688
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Global business cycles and credit risk
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor);  … - 2005
The potential for portfolio diversification is driven broadly by two characteristics: the degree to which systematic risk factors are correlated with each other and the degree of dependence individual firms have to the different types of risk factors. Using a global vector autoregressive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003201686
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Firm heterogeneity and credit risk diversification
Hanson, Samuel G. (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper considers a simple model of credit risk and derives the limit distribution of losses under different assumptions regarding the structure of systematic and idiosyncratic risks and the nature of firm heterogeneity. The theoretical results obtained indicate that if firm-specific risk...
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CEO preferences and acquisitions
Jenter, Dirk; Lewellen, Katharina - 2011
of takeover bids. Mergers frequently force target CEOs to retire early, and CEOs' private merger costs are the forgone … costs, we find strong evidence that target CEO preferences affect merger patterns. The likelihood of receiving a takeover … in takeover activity appears discretely at the age-65 threshold, with no gradual increase as CEOs approach retirement age …
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Managerial hedging and portfolio monitoring
Bisin, Alberto (contributor); Gottardi, Piero (contributor);  … - 2004
Incentive compensation induces correlation between the portfolio of managers and the cash flow of the firms they manage. This correlation exposes managers to risk and hence gives them an incentive to hedge against the poor performance of their firms. We study the agency problem between...
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Stakeholder governance, competition and firm value
Allen, Franklin; Carletti, Elena; Marquez, Robert - 2014
In many countries, the legal system or social norms ensure that firms are stakeholder oriented. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented firms that are concerned with employees and suppliers compared to shareholder-oriented firms in a model of imperfect competition....
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Optimal rent extraction in pre-industrial England and France : default risk and monitoring costs
Priks, Mikael (contributor) - 2005
to both the old system and to its major competitor, France. We offer a theory explaining this development. In our view, a … attractive. The results of the model are consistent with historical facts from England and France. …
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