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leverage faced tighter constraints in accessing bank credit after the COVID-19 outbreak in spring 2020. Specifically, SMEs with … higher pre-COVID leverage obtained a smaller volume of new loans and had to pay a higher spread on them during the pandemic … were not able to substitute to other sources of debt financing and thus experienced more of a reduction in total debt as …
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the entrepreneurs have other similar businesses are more likely to use external debt in the financial structure since … property assets have a lower probability of using debt, consistent with the higher asset specificity and lower collateral value …
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The rising stockpile of cash as a share of total assets at U.S. firms has intrigued economists since at least the paper of Bates, Kahle, and Stulz (2006), yet there has been relatively little work on where this cash has come from and how it is related to investment performance. We exploit...
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Credit availability from different sources varies greatly across firms and has firm-level effects on investment decisions and aggregate effects on output. We develop a theoretical framework in which firms decide endogenously at the extensive and intensive margins of different funding sources to...
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stock returns in the model. The model also captures the fact that book-to-market value dominates financial leverage in …
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This paper investigates whether small firms have experienced worse tightening of credit conditions during the Great Recession than large firms. To structure the empirical analysis, the paper first develops a simple model of bank loan pricing that derives both the interest rates on loans actually...
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dependence of firms precisely, as the ratio of bank debt to total assets. We show that a two standard deviation increase in the …
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How does business complexity affect risk management in financial institutions? The commonly used risk measures rely on either balance-sheet or market-based information, both of which may suffer from identification problems when it comes to answering this question. Balance-sheet measures, such as...
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This paper reveals and tests a new theoretical implication of the credit channel of monetary policy: as financial frictions (monitoring or auditing costs) increase, the reaction of stock prices to monetary policy shocks decreases. Correspondingly, towards the end of the Enron accounting scandal,...
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and debt. When discount rates are low and equity issuance is high, expected cash‐flow growth is low because firms … repurchase debt to offset equity issuance. A variance decomposition of the ratio of net payout reveals little transitory …
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