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Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

We develop a model of internal governance where the self-serving actions of top management are limited by the potential reaction of subordinates. Internal governance can mitigate agency problems and ensure that firms have substantial value, even with little or no external governance by...

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Cross-country variations in capital structures : the role of bankruptcy codes

Acharya, Viral V.; Sundaram, Rangarajan K.; John, Kose - In: Journal of financial intermediation 20 (2011) 1, pp. 25-54

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Liquidity Risk of Corporate Bond Returns : A Conditional Approach

Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

We study the exposure of the US corporate bond returns to liquidity shocks of stocks and Treasury bonds over the period … 1973 - 2007 in a regime - switching model. In one regime, liquidity shocks have mostly insignificant effects on bond prices … default), suggest the existence of time-varying liquidity risk of corporate bond returns conditional on episodes of flight to …

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Cash Holdings and Credit Risk

Acharya, Viral V. - 2011

liquidity may be related positively to the longer-term probability of default. Our empirical analysis confirms these predictions …

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Bank lines of credit as contingent liquidity : covenant violations and their implications

Acharya, Viral V.; Almeida, Heitor; Ippolito, Filippo; … - In: Journal of financial intermediation 44 (2020), pp. 1-13

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Rollover Risk and Market Freezes

Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

The crisis of 2007-09 has been characterized by a sudden freeze in the market for short-term, secured borrowing. We present a model that can explain a sudden collapse in the amount that can be borrowed against finitely-lived assets with little credit risk. The borrowing in this model takes the...

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How Do Global Banks Scramble for Liquidity? Evidence from the Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Freeze of 2007

Acharya, Viral V. - 2013

In August of 2007, banks faced a freeze in funding liquidity from the asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market. We … investigate how banks scrambled for liquidity in response to this freeze and its implications for corporate borrowing. Commercial …

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The dark side of liquidity creation : leverage and systemic risk

Acharya, Viral V.; Thakor, Anjan V. - In: Journal of financial intermediation 28 (2016), pp. 4-21

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How do global banks scramble for liquidity? : evidence from the asset-backed commercial paper freeze of 2007

Acharya, Viral V.; Afonso, Gara; Kovner, Anna - In: Journal of financial intermediation 30 (2017), pp. 1-34

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Creditor Rights and Corporate Risk-Taking

Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

We analyze the link between creditor rights and firms' investment policies, proposing that stronger creditor rights in bankruptcy reduce corporate risk-taking. In cross-country analysis, we find that stronger creditor rights induce greater propensity of firms to engage in diversifying...

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