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This paper analyses the impact of competition among downstream firms on an upstream firm's payoff and on its incentive to vertically integrate when firms on both segments negotiate optimal contracts. We argue that tougher competition decreases the downstream industry profit, but improves the...
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Credit rationing is a classical phenomenon studied for a long period but the last financial crisis put it in the news … situation. This paper tries to estimate the scale of credit rationing for French SMEs over the period 2000-2008. French SMEs …
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What is the impact of voluntary corporate environmental disclosures on the cost of equity? The present study will … information necessarily lower the cost of equity. …
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accompanied by significant abnormal returns of on average 9-12%, depending on the computing methods. Underpricing increases with … the risk of the issuer and the relative size of the future seasoned equity issue linked to warrant exercises. Our results …
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picture of worldwide microfinance equity from the viewpoint of a profit-oriented investor. We construct microfinance country … equity indices and an international global microfinance index. We analyse the changes in these indices, which we assess in … improves the investor's risk-return performance. While the inclusion of microfinance equity has indeed been a major source of …
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The volume of credit granted in the form of syndicated loans saw a marked downturn in 2008. This article seeks to understand how certain firms were nonetheless able to benefit from larger facilities or a lower interest rate than others. Using a sample of syndicated loans issued in 2008 in North...
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Extreme value theory has been widely applied in insurance and finance to model rare events. Plenty of such events have occurred in financial markets during the last two decades, including stock market crashes, currency crises, or large bankruptcies. This article applies extreme value theory...
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crisis has clearly shown credit rationing, and credit conditions tightening, even in syndicated loans market. We investigate …
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In this paper, we take up the analysis of a principal/agent model with moral hazard introduced by Pagès (J. Financ. Intermed. doi:10.1016/j.jfi.2012.06.001, 2012), with optimal contracting between competitive investors and an impatient bank monitoring a pool of long-term loans subject to...
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