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tax benefit of debt (net and gross of investor taxes) and the debt ratio. A 10% increase in the net (gross) marginal tax … also be identified in a partial adjustment model. -- Debt ; capital structure ; marginal tax rate ; corporate taxes … simulate marginal tax rates, we find a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between the marginal …
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This paper deals with both system-wide and banks' internal stress tests. For system-wide stress tests it describes the evolution over time, compares the stress test design in major jurisdictions, and discusses academic research. System-wide stress tests have gained in importance and nowadays...
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A large body of literature finds that managerial overconfidence increases risk-taking by financial institutions. This paper shows that financial regulation can be effective at mitigating this type of risk. Exploiting regulatory changes introduced after the financial crisis as a natural...
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firms rely heavily on equity financing, even though benefits associated with debt (like tax shields) appear to be high and …. Debt, however, has an adverse effect on the enforceability of these arrangements because too much debt increases the firm … analysis provides an explanation for why some firms only use little debt financing. Predictions made by our theory are in line …
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When looking at the Spanish banking market through a German lens, the differences between the banking markets in these countries and between decentralised and centralised systems with regard to the SME]credit decision]making process become obvious. Despite our hypotheses that Spanish savings...
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As expected, this comparison of the German and the UK banking systems shows substantial differences between the countries. In the UK, savings banks disappeared long ago and other regional banks have never become important in lending to business. Instead, the five large commercial banks dominate...
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A comparison of the German banking system with that of the United Kingdom (UK) and Spain shows Germany to be decentralised not only regarding the distribution of banks, but also its financial and political system more generally. Decentralised banks, which are predominantly regional savings banks...
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The corporate finance literature documents that managers tend to over-invest in their companies. A number of theoretical contributions have aimed at explaining this stylized fact, most of them focusing on a fundamental agency problem between shareholders and managers. The present paper shows...
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such differential taxation on the debt ratio of firms. We exploit a 2009 tax reform in Germany as a quasi-experiment, which … leverage when the tax rate on interest income decreases, albeit to a small degree. -- Income taxation ; capital taxation …Tax competition for the mobile factor capital has led to a trend in many countries to levy lower taxes on interest …
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Thirty years after the seminal work of Modigliani and Miller and countless articles the capital structure puzzle is for the most part unsolved. Especially, in this field of research there is a considerable lack of empirical evidence. Using firm level data from seven European countries, this...
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