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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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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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Does the Lack of Financial Stability Impair the Transmission of Monetary Policy?

Acharya, Viral V. - 2019

We investigate the transmission of central bank liquidity to bank deposits and loan spreads in Europe over the period … bank liquidity does not translate into lower loan spreads for high-risk banks for maturities beyond one year, even as it …

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Exorbitant Privilege? Quantitative Easing and the Bond Market Subsidy of Prospective Fallen Angels

Acharya, Viral V.; Banerjee, Ryan; Crosignani, Matteo; … - 2022

We document capital misallocation in the U.S. investment-grade (IG) corporate bond market, driven by quantitative easing (QE). Prospective fallen angels -- risky firms just above the IG rating cutoff -- enjoyed subsidized bond financing since 2009, especially when the scale of QE purchases...

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Monetary Easing, Leveraged Payouts and Lack of Investment

Acharya, Viral V.; Plantin, Guillaume - 2022

This paper studies a model in which a low monetary policy rate lowers the cost of capital for entrepreneurs, potentially spurring productive investment. Low interest rates, however, also induce entrepreneurs to lever up so as to increase payouts to equity. Whereas such leveraged payouts...

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Monetary Easing, Leveraged Payouts and Lack of Investment

Acharya, Viral V. - 2020

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The Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies

Acharya, Viral V. - 2020

We analyze how regulatory constraints on household leverage—in the form of loan-to-income and loan-to-value limits—affect residential mortgage credit and house prices as well as other asset classes not directly targeted by the limits. Supervisory loan level data suggest that mortgage credit...

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The Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies

Acharya, Viral V.; Bergant, Katharina; Crosignani, Matteo; … - 2022

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Credit Lines as Monitored Liquidity Insurance : Theory and Evidence

Acharya, Viral V. - 2013

We propose and test a theory of corporate liquidity management in which credit lines provided by banks to firms are a … form of monitored liquidity insurance. Bank monitoring and resulting credit line revocations help control illiquidity …-seeking behavior by firms. Firms with high liquidity risk are likely to use cash rather than credit lines for liquidity management …

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Is Cash Negative Debt? A Hedging Perspective on Corporate Financial Policies

Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

We model the interplay between cash and debt policies in the presence of financial constraints. While saving cash allows financially constrained firms to hedge against future income shortfalls, reducing debt - quot;saving borrowing capacityquot; - is a more effective way of securing future...

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