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Credit Lines as Monitored Liquidity Insurance : Theory and Evidence
Acharya, Viral V. - 2013
form of monitored liquidity insurance. Bank monitoring and resulting credit line revocations help control illiquidity … because the cost of monitored liquidity insurance increases with liquidity risk. We exploit a quasi-experiment around the …
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Developing Countries' Financial Vulnerability to the Euro Crisis : An Event Study of Equity and Bond Markets
Aizenman, Joshua - 2013
The global crisis highlights the continued vulnerability of developing countries to shocks from advanced economies. Just a few years after the global crisis, the eurozone sovereign debt crisis has emerged as the single biggest threat to the global outlook. In this paper, we apply the event study...
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Bubbly Liquidity
Farhi, Emmanuel - 2011
This paper analyzes the possibility and the consequences of rational bubbles in a dy- namic economy where financially constrained firms demand and supply liquidity. Bub- bles are more likely to emerge, the scarcer the supply of outside liquidity and the more limited the pledgeability of...
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Liquidity Mergers
Almeida, Heitor - 2011
We study the interplay between corporate liquidity and asset reallocation opportunities. Our model shows that financially distressed firms are acquired by liquid firms in their industries even when there are no operational synergies associated with the merger. We call these transactions...
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Liquidity Management and Corporate Investment During a Financial Crisis
Campello, Murillo - 2010
This paper uses a unique dataset to study how firms managed liquidity during the financial crisis. Our analysis provides new insights on the interactions between internal liquidity, external funds, and real corporate decisions, such as investment and employment. We first describe how companies...
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Asset Liquidity and International Portfolio Choice
Geromichalos, Athanasios - 2011
We study optimal portfolio choice in a two-country model where assets represent claims on future consumption and facilitate trade in markets with imperfect credit. Assuming that foreign assets trade at a cost, agents hold relatively more domestic assets. Consequently, agents have larger claims...
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How Do Firm Financial Conditions Affect Product Quality and Pricing?
Phillips, Gordon M. - 2011
We analyze the interaction of firm product quality and pricing decisions with financial distress and bankruptcy in the airline industry. We consider an airline's choices of quality and price as dynamic decisions that trade off current cash flows for future revenue. We examine how airline...
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Cash Holdings and Credit Risk
Acharya, Viral V. - 2011
Intuition suggests that firms with higher cash holdings are safer and should have lower credit spreads. Yet empirically, the correlation between cash and spreads is robustly positive and higher for lower credit ratings. This puzzling finding can be explained by the precautionary motive for...
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Narrow Framing and Life Insurance
Gottlieb, Daniel - 2012
Life insurance is a large yet poorly understood industry. A final death benefit is not paid for a majority of policies … are inverted relative to the dynamic pattern consistent with reclassification risk insurance. As an industry, insurers … for their need for future liquidity when purchasing insurance, offers a simple and unified explanation …
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Boarding a Sinking Ship? An Investigation of Job Applications to Distressed Firms
Brown, Jennifer - 2012
We use novel data from a leading online job search platform to examine the impact of corporate distress on firms' ability to attract job applicants. Survey responses suggest that job seekers accurately perceive firms' financial condition, as measured by companies' credit default swap prices and...
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