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Insolvency systems play a crucial role in protection of creditor rights, yet micro-level empirical evidence on the functioning of insolvency regimes worldwide is sparse. We investigate whether creditors' recovery of outstanding claims, a measure of ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime,...
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There have been criticisms of debt sustainability analysis in general, including the IMF's own evaluation of the usefulness of its debt sustainability methodology (e.g., IMF, 2017). This paper's focus is narrow. On the basis of theoretical arguments and empirical evidence, it argues that the...
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This paper constructs new indicators of liquidity for equity, bond and money markets in major advanced and emerging … evidence of an historical increase in market liquidity since the early 1990s, in part as a result of advances in international … financial integration, but markets have been increasingly exposed to global systemic liquidity shocks. Second, liquidity …
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, additional liquidity-related and return forecasting factors. Liquidity factors are obtained from a decomposition of the TED …-sectional fit of the yield curve. Second, we find that financial shocks, either in the form of liquidity or risk premium shocks …
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Turnovsky (1995) derives in a continuous-time model of a decentralized economy that the correct specification of the firm's objective function is to maximize the initial value of its outstanding securities. The firm value is the discounted flow of real earnings. For the discrete-time version of...
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This paper explores empirically the link between French equities returns Value-at-Risk (VaR) and the state of financial markets cycle. The econometric analysis is based on a simple vector autoregression setup. Using quarterly data from 1970Q4 to 2008Q3, it turns out that the k-year VaR of French...
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Cash holdings at the onset of a financial crisis are a key determinant of investment by SMEs not only during the crisis but also during the recovery period. Cash-rich SMEs could maintain their capital stock during the global financial crisis, while cash-poor rivals reduced theirs. This gave...
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the international allocation of economic activity. Private assets’ liquidity properties - their usefulness as collateral … entry, production, aggregate productivity, and total market capitalization. In a closed economy, the liquidity market …, cross-country differences in financial development|as measured by the degree of liquidity of a country’s assets - generate …
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This paper studies banks' liquidity provision in the Lagos and Wright model of monetary exchanges. With aggregate …
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We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has … characterised by positive trends in liquidity, there is no persuasive time-series and cross-sectional evidence for a negative link … between anomalies in market returns and liquidity. Thus, this proxy of arbitrage activity does not appear to be a key factor …
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