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In this paper we introduce flexibility as an economic concept and apply it to the firm’ssecurity issuance decision and capital structure choice. Flexibility is the ability to makedecisions that one thinks are best even when others disagree. The firm’s management valuesflexibility because it...
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We estimate the incremental financing decision for a sample of some 150Dutch companies for the years 1984 through 1997, thereby distinguishinginternal finance and three types of external finance: bank borrowing, bondissues and share issues. First, we estimate a multinomial logit model...
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emerging Europe motivates our analysis of currency mismatch losses in different sectors in the economy, and the …
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We argue that the recent corporate governance reform in the Netherlands provides a natural experiment to explore the impact of changes in corporate governance on financing policy. We find that, relative to a control sample of comparable firms outside the Netherlands, Dutch firms significantly...
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The paper investigates the impact of jumps in forecasting co-volatility, accommodating leverage effects. We modify the … definite. Using this approach we can disentangle the estimates of the integrated co-volatility matrix and jump variations from … the co-jumps of two assets have a significant impact on future co-volatility, but that the impact is negligible for …
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relationship between the S&P500 Composite Index and the Volatility Index (VIX), but few empirical studies have focused on the …. Daily data on ETF returns that follow different stock indexes in the USA and Europe are used in the empirical analysis. The …
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We develop an economic theory of “flexibility”, which we interpret as the discretion orability to make a decision that others disagree with. We show that flexibility is essentiallyan option for the decisionmaker, and can be valued as such. The value of the flexibilityoption is decreasing in...
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