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Optimal Defaults for Corporate Law Evolution
Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2009
Public corporations live in a dynamic and ever-changing business environment. This paper examines how courts and legislators should choose default arrangements in the corporate area to address new circumstances. We show that the interests of the shareholders of existing companies would not be...
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Federalism and Takeover Law : the Race to Protect Managers from Takeovers
Bebchuk, Lucian A.; Ferrell, Allen - 2021
state takeover law, we argue, is consistent with our theory. States have adopted antitakeover statutes that have little …
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Should Derivatives Be Privileged in Bankruptcy?
Bolton, Patrick - 2011
Derivative contracts, swaps, and repos enjoy "super-senior" status in bankruptcy: they are exempt from the automatic stay on debt and collateral collection that applies to virtually all other claims. We propose a simple corporate finance model to assess the effect of this exemption on firms'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118249
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A Model of Mortgage Default
Campbell, John Y. - 2011
This paper solves a dynamic model of a household's decision to default on its mortgage, taking into account labor income, house price, inflation, and interest rate risk. Mortgage default is triggered by negative home equity, which results from declining house prices in a low inflation...
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Firm Heterogeneity, Endogenous Entry, and the Business Cycle
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2011
This paper investigates the role that the entry and exit of heterogeneous firms plays in shaping aggregate fluctuations in economic activity. In so doing, it develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which procyclical entry and countercyclical exit along a real business cycle...
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Are Corporate Default Probabilities Consistent with the Static Tradeoff Theory?
Hovakimian, Armen - 2011
Default probability plays a central role in the static tradeoff theory of capital structure. We directly test this … theory by regressing the probability of default on proxies for costs and benefits of debt. Contrary to predictions of the … theory, firms with higher bankruptcy costs, i.e., smaller firms and firms with lower asset tangibility, choose capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121593
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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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Bankruptcy Spillovers
Bernstein, Shai - 2017
How do different bankruptcy approaches affect the local economy? Using U.S. Census microdata at the establishment level, we explore the spillover effects of reorganization and liquidation on geographically proximate firms. We exploit the random assignment of bankruptcy judges as a source of...
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Dynamic Debt Maturity
He, Zhiguo - 2016
A firm chooses its debt maturity structure and default timing dynamically, both without commitment. Via the fraction of newly issued short-term bonds, equity holders control the maturity structure, which affects their endogenous default decision. A shortening equilibrium with accelerated default...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000527
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Insolvency Resolution and the Missing High Yield Bond Markets
Becker, Bo - 2013
-country and using insolvency reforms as natural experiments. Our empirical estimates suggest that a one …
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