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This paper uses detailed high-frequency regulatory data to evaluate whether trading increases or decreases systemic risk in the U.S. banking sector. We estimate the sensitivity of weekly bank trading net profits to a variety of aggregate risk factors, which include equities, fixed-income,...
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We find that ownership by different types of institutional investor has different implications for future firm misvaluation and governance characteristics. Dedicated institutional investors decrease future firm misvaluation relative to fundamentals, as well as the magnitude of this misvaluation....
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-looking market-based risk measures provide significant explanatory power in predicting net leverage changes in excess of accounting …' magnitudes of, and propensity for, net leverage increases. Firms with larger predicted leverage increases outperform firms with …, leverage, and distress risk puzzles, firms with lower predicted leverage increases are riskier but earn lower abnormal returns …
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We provide new estimates of the wage costs of firms' debt. Our empirical approach exploits within-firm geographical … sample of public firms. We find that, following an increase in firm leverage, workers with higher unemployment costs … that a 10 percentage point increase in leverage increases wage compensation for the median worker by 1.9% and total firm …
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collateral, a shift toward greater reliance on intangible capital shrinks the debt capacity of firms and leads them to optimally …
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Following the financial crisis, total outstanding loans to businesses by commercial banks dropped off substantially. Large loans outstanding began to rebound by the third quarter of 2010 and essentially returned to their previous growth trajectory while small loans outstanding continued to...
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When stress tests for the banking sector use a macroeconomic scenario, an unstated premise is that macro variables should be useful factors in forecasting the performance of banks. We assess whether variables such as the ones included in stress tests for U.S. bank holding companies help improve...
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We examine the effects of government policy uncertainty on cross-border capital flows. FDI flows from US companies to foreign affiliates drop significantly during the period just before an election. The election effect for FDI is larger than election cycles in domestic investment. The electoral...
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We assess the effects of geographic expansion on bank efficiency using cost and profit efficiency for over 7,000 U.S. banks, 1993-1998. We find that parent organizations exercise some control over the efficiency of their affiliates, although this control tends to dissipate with distance to the...
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We study how bank loan rates responded to a 50% increase in capital requirements for a subcategory of construction lending, High Volatility Commercial Real Estate (HVCRE). To identify this effect, we exploit variation in the loan terms determining whether a loan is classified as HVCRE and the...
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