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Existing theories of a firm's optimal capital structure seem to fail in explaining why many healthy and profitable firms rely heavily on equity financing, even though benefits associated with debt (like tax shields) appear to be high and the bankruptcy risk low. This holds in particular for...
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This paper provides new evidence that taxes affect capital structure choice, using a unique and comprehensive panel data set which covers 86,173 German non-financial firms over the years 1973–2008. Following the Graham methodology to simulate marginal tax rates, we find a statistically and...
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Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes funding through debt more attractive. In this paper, we explore how regulatory levies affect bank capital structure, depending on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance...
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Mutual fund risk-taking via active portfolio rebalancing varies both in the cross-section and over time. In this paper, I show that the same is true for funds' off- balance sheet risk-taking, even after controlling for on-balance sheet activities. For this purpose, I propose a novel measure of...
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Using a Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR) identified with a mix of sign and zero restrictions, we show that a restrictive bank loan supply shock has a strong and persistent negative impact on real GDP and the GDP deflator. This result comes about even though flows of other sources of...
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regional factors, the loans' maturity structure is found to drive the bank-wide loss rates in the credit portfolio. (ii) The … nationwide loss rate has the most impact, followed by the maturity structure and the industry composition. (iii) For nationwide … banks, this percentage is less than eight percent. -- Credit risk ; systematic risk ; maturity ; stress tests …
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and returns from maturity transformation. Banks price interest risk according to their individual exposure separately in … loan and deposit rates, but reduce these charges when they expect returns from maturity transformation. Second, using a … for earnings from bank-individual maturity transformation strategies, we find all banks to charge additional fees for …
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