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diversification or the application of currency hedging instruments. This analysis is based on a unique dataset of 339 publicly listed … hedging instruments.In a second step, we go beyond existing research and distinguish between two separate dimensions of family … costs and thus leads to lower levels of business segment diversification and less currency hedging. In contrast family …
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In this paper the performance of locally risk-minimizing hedge strategies for European options in stochastic volatility … large class of diffusion-type stochastic volatility models, and they are as easy to implement as usual delta hedges. Our …
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I examine how mandatory disclosure of fiscal payment information in developed countries affects fiscal revenue contributions and investments by multinational firms in less developed countries. In Europe and Canada, extractive firms have to publicly disclose their payments to foreign host...
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In this paper, we re-evaluate the hypothesis that the introduction of the IFRS has an impact on the timeliness of loss recognition. We test this hypothesis in a data set of public German firms that report according to German-GAAP and IFRS, respectively. The parallel use of the two accounting...
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For a given set of banks, which economic and financial scenarios will lead to big losses? How big can losses in such scenarios possibly get? These are the two central questions of macro stress tests. We believe that most current macro stress testing models have deficits in answering these...
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We present a simple and operational yet rigorous framework that combines current methods of bank solvency stress tests … differences in bank losses caused by fire sales are significant and go beyond the trivial fact that with deleveraging we will get …
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Market liquidity is the ease of trading an asset. Its risk is the potential loss, because a security can only be traded at high or prohibitive costs. While the omnipresence and importance of market liquidity is widely acknowledged, it has long remained a more or less elusive concept. Treatment...
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financing and hedging policies, shareholders generally have no incentives to engage in asset substitution once debt has been …
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This paper develops a quantitative framework for analyzing the impact of macroeconomic conditions on credit risk and dynamic capital structure choice. We begin by observing that when cash flows depend on current economic conditions, there will be a benefit for firms to adapt their default and...
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We analyse to what extent the accrual anomaly is related to the choice of the accounting system as well as firm-level heterogeneity in corporate governance mechanisms. Using a unique dataset of listed German firms over the period 1995 to 2005 we first corroborate former results indicating that...
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