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Why Do Companies Go Public? An Empirical Analysis
Pagano, Marco; Panetta, Fabio; Zingales, Luigi - 2021
finance subsequent investment and growth, but to reduce leverage, (iv) going public reduces the cost of bank credit; (v) it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244375
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Kill Zone
Kamepalli, Sai Krishna; Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - 2022
We study why acquisitions of entrant firms by an incumbent can deter innovation and entry in the digital platform industry, where there are strong network externalities and some customers face switching costs. A high probability of an acquisition induces some potential early adopters to wait for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013298326
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Monnet's Error?
Guiso, Luigi - 2015
-Europe sentiment as does the 2010 Eurozone crisis. Yet, in spite of the worst recession in recent history, the Europeans still support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023682
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The Cost of Diversity : The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2006
In a simple model of capital budgeting in a diversified firm where headquarters has limited power, we show that funds are allocated towards the most inefficient divisions. The distortion is greater the more diverse are the investment opportunities of the firm's divisions. We test these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783969
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The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
Guiso, Luigi - 2010
To identify the effect of social capital on financial development, we exploit the well-known differences in social capital and trust (Banfield (1958), Putnam (1993)) across different parts of Italy, using microeconomic data on households and firms. In areas of the country with high levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763754
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Survival of the Fittest or the Fattest? Exit and Financing in the Trucking Industry
Zingales, Luigi - 2021
This paper studies the impact that capital market imperfections have on the natural" selection of the most efficient firms by estimating the effect of the pre-deregulation level of" leverage on the survival of trucking firms after the Carter deregulation. Highly leveraged" carriers are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215356
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The Cost of Banking Regulation
Guiso, Luigi - 2010
We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the … effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was … increase in bad loans. In provinces where restrictions to bank competition were most severe, the proportion of bad loans after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760665
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Banks and Markets : The Changing Character of European Finance
Zingales, Luigi - 2010
In the last two decades the European financial markets have become more market oriented. We analyze the economic and political forces that have triggered these changes as well as their likely welfare implications. We also try to assess whether this trend will continue. Based on our analysis, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762834
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Banks are Where the Liquidity is
Hart, Oliver - 2014
simple model where, even ignoring interconnectedness issues, the failure of a bank causes a larger welfare loss than the … banks, and the size of this response should be larger if a bank, rather than a similarly-sized nonfinancial firm, fails …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052509