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We revisit the relation between equity returns and financial leverage through the lens of a trade-off model with costly capital structure rebalancing. The model provides a “lookalike” Modigliani-Miller equation that predicts that expected equity returns depend on whether a firm's leverage is...
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regulatory requirements. Our analytic characterization of the bank policy choices shows that imposing solely liquidity … requirements leads to lower bank losses in default at the cost of an increased likelihood of default. Combining liquidity … requirements with leverage requirements reduces drastically both the likelihood of default and the magnitude of bank losses in …
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Using administrative data on deposits and loans of every Norwegian with every Norwegian bank, we show that an existing … deposit account makes a household more likely to hold deposits at the same bank later despite better alternatives and more …
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How do banks respond to changes in capital requirements as a result of the stress tests? Does the disclosure of stress test results matter? To answer these questions, we study the impact of European stress tests on banks' lending, their corresponding risk-taking, the ensuing effect on their...
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bank's financing structure. In our model the bank's assets consist of illiquid loans and liquid reserves and are financed … to an exogenous rollover risk. We show that the use of repos inflicts two types of indirect (“shadow”) costs on the bank …'s shareholders: first, it induces the bank to maintain higher liquid reserves in order to alleviate the additional default risk …
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I develop a dynamic model of financing decisions and optimal debt maturity choice in which creditors face adverse selection and learn about the firm's quality from news. In equilibrium, shareholders may choose to postpone debt issuance to reduce adverse selection and improve the pricing of newly...
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Cooper and Nyborg (2008) derive a tax-adjusted discount rate formula under a constant proportion leverage policy, investor taxes and risky debt. However, their analysis assumes zero recovery in default. We extend their framework to allow for positive recovery rates. We also allow for differences...
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evidence that supervisory scrutiny associated to stress testing has a disciplining effect on bank risk. We find that banks that …
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. Although global bank lending is often reported to amplify the international credit cycle, we show that foreign banking acted as …
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Portuguese banks to investigate how these inspections affect banks' future lending decisions. We find that an inspected bank …
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