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liquidity may be related positively to the longer-term probability of default. Our empirical analysis confirms these predictions …
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It is widely believed that the stock-market oriented US financial system forces corporate managers to behave myopically relative to their Japanese counterparts, who operate in a bank-based system. We hypothesize that if US firms are more myopic than Japanese firms, then episodes of financial...
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In this paper, we propose a bank-based explanation for the decade-long Japanese slowdown following the asset price collapse in the early 1990s. We start with the well-known observation that most large Japanese banks were only able to comply with capital standards because regulators were lax in...
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over faster than domestic assets because the former have desirable liquidity properties, but represent inferior saving …
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liquidity providers (sinks) when market valuations are high (low). Venture cash flows and performance are considerably more …
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Is greater trading liquidity good or bad for corporate governance? We address this question both theoretically and … information concerns her own plans for taking an active role in governance. We show that an increase in the liquidity of the firm …'s stock increases the likelihood of the large investor 'taking the Wall Street walk.' Thus, higher liquidity is harmful for …
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infinitesimal amount of liquidity to the agent. We show that the most financially central agents are not only those who trade often …
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We study the effect of real asset liquidity on a firm's cost of capital. We find an aggregate asset-liquidity discount … in firms' cost of capital that is strongly counter-cyclical. At the firm-level we find that asset liquidity affects firms … periods of high asset liquidity have lower cost of capital. This effect is stronger when the asset liquidity is provided by …
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. The bankruptcy and liquidation of a retail chain weakens the economies of agglomeration in any given local area, reducing …
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This paper evaluates the cases for and against plant closing legislation. In spite of the growth of legislative efforts in the area, there has been surprisingly little effort devoted to analyzing what the effects are of existing plant closing legislation, of provisions in privately negotiated...
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