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Private Equity and Employment
Davis, Steven J. - 2011
150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in terms of industry, size …
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How Costly is Financial (not Economic) Distress? Evidence from Highly Leveraged Transactions that Became Distressed
Andrade, Gregor - 1997
This paper studies thirty-one highly leveraged transactions (HLTs) of the 1980s that subsequently became financially distressed. At the time of distress, all sample firms have operating margins that are positive and in the majority of cases greater than the median for the industry. Therefore, we...
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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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Bailouts, the Incentive to Manage Risk, and Financial Crises
Panageas, Stavros - 2009
A firm's termination leads to bankruptcy costs. This may create an incentive for outside stakeholders or the firm …'s debtholders to bail out the firm as bankruptcy looms. Because of this implicit guarantee, firm shareholders have an incentive to …
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Trade Reforms and Market Selection : Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia
Eslava, Marcela - 2009
We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...
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Tracing the Woes : An Empirical Analysis of the Airline Industry
Berry, Steven - 2008
The U.S. airline industry went through tremendous turmoil in the early 2000's. There were four major bankruptcies and two major mergers, with all legacy carriers reporting a large profit reduction. This paper presents a structural model of the airline industry, and estimates the impact of demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464144
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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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Examining the Incidence of Downsizing and Its Effect on Establishment Performance
Cappelli, Peter - 2000
The interest in examining job security and job stability has been driven in part by the phenomenon of downsizing. The … distinctiveness of downsizing, as opposed to more traditional layoffs, is that the job cuts do not necessarily appear to be driven by … shortfalls in demand but instead appear to be driven by the search for operating efficiencies. Despite the interest in downsizing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471008
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The Economic Performance of Survivors after Layoffs : A Plant-Level Study
Ichniowski, Casey - 1986
This study tests for the empirical relationship between layoffs and the economic performance of workers who remain after the layoffs. Previous studies performed in laboratory settings have often found increases in the efficiency of workers after layoffs. This analysis is the first to test for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477270
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Hostility in Takeovers : In the Eyes of the Beholder?
Schwert, G. William - 1999
This paper examines whether hostile takeovers can be distinguished from friendly takeovers, empirically, based on accounting and stock performance data. Much has been made of this distinction in both the popular and the academic literature, where gains from hostile takeovers are typically...
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