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financial spheres. The monetary profit inducing capitalist production, emanates from the sphere of finance. In a world of …
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External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that … increase the likelihood of obtaining equity finance. Thus, if signals are credible, innovation positively impacts external … that the relation between finance and innovation depends on the stage of a start-up lifecycle. …
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A widely recognized paper by Colin Mayer (1988) has led to a profound revision of academic thinking about financing patterns of corporations in different countries. Using flow-of-funds data instead of balance sheet data, Mayer and others who followed his lead found that internal financing is the...
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In this paper we analyze how a firm might protect quasi-rents in an environmentof imperfect capital markets, where switching lenders is costly to the borrower, andcontracts are incomplete. As switching costs make the firm vulnerable to ex-postexploitation, it may want to diversify lending in...
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This paper develops a principal-agent model of financial contracting in which optimal contracts resemble a combination of debt and equity. When defaulting on debt, the firm is punished by disruption of external funding. Such contracts however, invite rivals to compete more aggressively to...
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This paper deals with optimal financial contracts which simultaneously provide payincentives and impose constraints on managerial control.
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The classical approach to testing for structural change employs retrospective tests using a historical data set of a given length. Here we consider a wide array of fluctuation-type tests in a monitoring situation - given a history period for which a regression relationship is known to be stable,...
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In a recent paper Loeffler/Schneider (2000) showed that introducing a tax on a financial market does not create an arbitrage opportunity...
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In capital budgeting problems future cash flows are discounted using the expected one period returns of the investment ...
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We generalize the classical concept of a certainty equivalent to a model where an investor can trade on a capital market with several future trading dates.We show that if a riskless asset is traded and the investor has a CARA utility then our generalized certainty equivalent can be evaluated...
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