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The Role of Leasing Under Adverse Selection
Hendel, Igal - 2008
Leasing contracts specify a rental rate and an option price at which the used good can be bought at the termination of … prices. In contrast, under adverse selection, leasing contracts affect equilibrium allocations in a way that matches observed … behavior in the car market. We show that a social planner can use leasing contracts to improve welfare but they are imperfect …
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Liquidation Values and the Credibility of Financial Contract Renegotiation : Evidence from U.S. Airlines
Benmelech, Efraim - 2008
How do liquidation values affect financial contract renegotiation? While the amp;apos;incomplete contractingamp;apos; theory of financial contracting predicts that liquidation values determine the allocation of bargaining power between creditors and debtors, there is little empirical evidence on...
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Owning, Using and Renting : Some Simple Economics of the "Sharing Economy"
Horton, John J. - 2016
New Internet-based markets enable consumer/owners to rent out their durable goods when not using them. Such markets are modeled to determine ownership, rental rates, quantities, and surplus generated. Both the short run, before consumers can revise their ownership decisions, and the long run, in...
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The Economics of Time-Limited Development Options : The Case of Oil and Gas Leases
Herrnstadt, Evan; Kellogg, Ryan; Lewis, Eric - 2022
Oil and gas leases between mineral owners and extraction firms ubiquitously include royalty and primary term clauses. The royalty denotes the share of revenue that is paid to the mineral owner, and the primary term specifies the date by which the firm must complete a well, lest it lose the...
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Financing Cities
Inman, Robert P. - 2021
The macro-economic and micro-economic evidences makes a persuasive case for cities as important centers for productive efficiency, innnovation, and economic growth. For cities to achieve their full economic potential, however, complementary public services are required. This paper reviews the...
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The Effect of Credit Market Competition on Lending Relationships
Petersen, Mitchell A. - 2000
the value of lending relationships. Creditors are more likely to finance credit constrained firms when credit markets are …
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Equilibrium Corporate Finance and Intermediation
Bisin, Alberto - 2014
This paper analyzes a class of competitive economies with production, incomplete financial markets, and agency frictions. Firms take their production, financing, and contractual decisions so as to maximize their value under rational conjectures. We show that competitive equilibria exist and that...
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The Mother of All Sudden Stops : Capital Flows and Reversals in Europe, 1919-32
Accominotti, Olivier - 2013
We present new data documenting European capital issues in major financial centers from 1919 to 1932. Push factors (conditions in international capital markets) perform better than pull factors (conditions in the borrowing countries) in explaining the surge and reversal in capital flows. In...
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Cables, Sharks and Servers : Technology and the Geography of the Foreign Exchange Market
Eichengreen, Barry - 2016
We analyze the impact of technology on production and trade in services, focusing on the foreign exchange market. We identify exogenous technological changes by the connection of countries to submarine fiber-optic cables used for electronic trading, but which were not laid for purposes related...
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How are Stock Prices Affected by the Location of Trade?
Froot, Kenneth - 2008
We examine pairs of large, Siamese twin' companies whose stocks are traded around the world but have different trading and ownership habitats. Twins pool their cashflows so, with integrated markets, twin stocks should move together. In contrast, the relative prices of twin stocks appear...
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