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Market timing of long-term debt issuance

Witmer, Jonathan - 2009

The literature on market timing of long-term debt issuance yields mixed evidence that managers can successfully time … their debt-maturity issuance. The early results that are indicative of debt-maturity timing are not robust to accounting for … structural breaks or to other measures of debt maturity from firm-level data that account for call and put provisions in debt …

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Multiple buffer CoCos and their impact on financial stability

Neamtu, Ioana - 2020

global games methodologies. Contingent convertible bonds are meant to act as a bail-in mechanism for banks, where CoCo debt …

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The political economy of financial systems

Haber, Stephen H.; Perotti, Enrico - 2008

This survey reviews the literature on the political economy of financial structure, broadly defined to include the size of capital markets and banking systems as well as the distribution of access to external finance across firms.The theoretical literature on the institutional basis for...

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Lessons from international central counterparties : benchmarking and analysis

Lazarow, Alexandre - 2011

Since the financial crisis, attention has focused on central counterparties (CCPs) as a solution to systemic risk for a variety of financial markets, ranging from repurchase agreements and options to swaps. However, internationally accepted standards and the academic literature have left...

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Advances in financial risk management and economic policy uncertainty : an overview

Hammoudeh, Shawkat; McAleer, Michael - 2014

Financial risk management is difficult at the best of times, but especially so in the presence of economic uncertainty and financial crises. The purpose of this special issue on "Advances in Financial Risk Management and Economic Policy Uncertainty" is to highlight some areas of research in...

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Financial constraints and the cash-holding behaviour of Canadian firms

McVanel, Darcey (contributor); Perevalov, Nikita (contributor) - 2008

The proportion of assets held by the average Canadian firm in the form of cash has increased steadily since the early 1990s, and is now roughly twice as large as in 1990. The literature has established that the cash-holding behaviour of firms is highly correlated with financial constraints and...

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A framework in search of an optimal margining policy for official institutions : the Canadian experience

Nakashima, Tomo; Cosma, Mihai; Plong, Boran - 2016

One of the main outcomes of the global financial crisis has been a series of new regulations imposed on the financial system and specifically on banks. As a result of the changing regulations, bank dealers introduced various "credit" and "liquidity" charges for uncollateralized over-the-counter...

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Investor protection and entry

Perotti, Enrico; Volpin, Paolo - 2006

Entry requires external finance, especially for less wealthy entrepreneurs, so poor investor protection limits competition. We model how incumbents lobby harder to block access to finance to entrants when politicians are less accountable to voters. In a broad cross-section of countries and...

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Lobbying on entry

Perotti, Enrico; Volpin, Paolo - 2004

We develop a model of endogenous lobby formation in which wealth inequalityand political accountability undermine entry and financial development. In-cumbents seek a low level of effective investor protection to prevent potentialentrants from raising capital. They succeed because they can...

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Financial distress and hedging : evidence from Canadian oil firms

Mo, Kun; Suvankulov, Farrukh; Griffiths, Sophie - 2019

firms with higher short-term and long-term debt tend to hedge more. Furthermore, an increase in the Altman bankruptcy score …

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