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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Bogart, Daniel - 2010
During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to exploit economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In...
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Financial Risk Capacity
Bigio, Saki - 2019
Financial crises are particularly severe and lengthy when banks fail to recapitalize after bearing large losses. We present a model that explains the slow recovery of bank capital and economic activity. Banks provide intermediation in markets with information asymmetries. Large equity losses...
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The Cross-Section of Hurdle Rates for Capital Budgeting : An Empirical Analysis of Survey Data
Jagannathan, Ravi - 2011
Whereas Poterba and Summers (1995) find that firms use hurdle rates that are unrelated to their CAPM betas, Graham and Harvey (2001) find that 74% of their survey firms use the CAPM for capital budgeting. We provide an explanation for these two apparently contradictory conclusions. We find that...
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Borrow Cheap, Buy High? The Determinants of Leverage and Pricing in Buyouts
Axelson, Ulf - 2010
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the financial structure of large buyouts. We collect detailed information on the financing of 1157 worldwide private equity deals from 1980 to 2008. Buyout leverage is cross-sectionally unrelated to the leverage of matched public firms, and is largely...
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Credit within the firm
Pistaferri, Luigi - 2010
We exploit time variation in the degree of development of local credit markets and matched employer-employee data to assess the role of the firm as an internal credit market. In less developed local credit markets firms can offer a flatter wage-tenure profile than firms in more developed credit...
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Decoupling and Recoupling
Korinek, Anton - 2010
We develop a stylized model that captures the phenomena of decoupling and recoupling in an environment where heterogeneous entrepreneurial sectors face financial constraints in their relationship with a common set of lenders. In response to adverse shocks, a financially constrained sector must...
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Household Leverage and the Recession of 2007 to 2009
Mian, Atif R. - 2010
We show that household leverage as of 2006 is a powerful statistical predictor of the severity of the 2007 to 2009 recession across U.S. counties. Counties in the U.S. that experienced a large increase in household leverage from 2002 to 2006 showed a sharp relative decline in durable consumption...
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Corporate Bond Default Risk : A 150-Year Perspective
Giesecke, Kay - 2010
We study corporate bond default rates using an extensive new data set spanning the 1866-2008 period. We find that the corporate bond market has repeatedly suffered clustered default events much worse than those experienced during the Great Depression. For example, during the railroad crisis of...
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The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance : A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Kerr, William R. - 2010
This paper documents the role of angel funding for the growth, survival, and access to follow-on funding of high … funding and those that do not. This technique exploits that a small change in the collective interest levels of the angels can … lead to a discrete change in the probability of funding for otherwise comparable ventures. We first show that angel funding …
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The Influence of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation on Housing Markets During the 1930s
Fishback, Price V. - 2010
Problems with mortgage financing are widely considered to be a major cause of the recent financial meltdown. Several modern programs have been designed to mimic the Home Owners' Loan Corporation of the 1930s. The HOLC replaced the toxic assets on the balance sheets of financial institutions by...
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