Directors at large, publicly-listed firms tend to hold several directorships. The literature on quot;social networksquot; suggests that directors with multiple directorships may spread what they learn on one board to another board. This suggests that overlapping directors may cause corporate...

Using a broad socio-economic conception of capital markets agency relationships, this study analyzes an immportant economic transition in US economic history. It focuses on the institutional and informational changes that attended the reform of corporare governance and regulation in the railroad...

Both real and financial variables are integrated into a model of oligopolistic firms that allows for mergers. Limited liability provides the basis for financing mergers by means of debt. This shifts risk to credit holders in bad states of nature. In general, it is found that when the credit...

This paper reviews the literature on one of the most meaningful concepts in modern behavioural finance, the overconfidence phenomenon. Overconfidence is presented as a well-developed psychological theory, with main facets comprising miscalibration, better-than-average effect, illusion of control...

Both real and financial variables are integrated into a model of oligopolistic firms that allows for mergers. Limited liability provides the basis for financing mergers by means of debt. This shifts risk to credit holders in bad states of nature. In general, it is found that when the credit...

We present a model that can explain a sudden drop in the amount of money that can be borrowed against an asset, even in the absence of asymmetric information or fears about the value of the collateral. Three features of the model are essential: (i) the debt has a much shorter tenor than the...

The phenomena that mark the economic environment in recent decades are under the sign of globalization, interdependence and interaction. Whatever happens in any corner of the world, affects more or less extensively the local economic environments. In these circumstances, any organization,...

At one point in time, there was self-insurance. Then came risk management. Now comes the era of enterprise risk management(ERM). Traditional risk management will always be necessary, but ERM will complement existing risk activities by extending the field to cover all core risks as well as...

Using a unique, hand-collected data set on hedging activities of 150 US oil and gas producers, we study the determinants of hedging strategy choice. We also examine the economic effects of hedging strategy on firms’ risk, value and performance. We model hedging strategy choice as a multi-state...

This paper investigates the link between the optimal level of nonfinancial firms' leverage and macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a structural model of a firm's value maximization problem that predicts that as macroeconomic un-certainty increases the firm will decrease its optimal level of...