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Why do borrowers pledge collateral? : New empirical evidence on the role of asymmetric information
Berger, Allen N.; Espinosa-Vega, Marco A.; Frame, W. Scott - 2007 - Rev.
An important theoretical literature motivates collateral as a mechanism that mitigates adverse selection, credit rationing, and other inefficiencies that arise when borrowers hold ex ante private information. There is no clear empirical evidence regarding the central implication of this...
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Capital market financing, firm growth, and firm size distribution
Didier, Tatiana; Levine, Ross; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2016
How many and which firms issue equity and bonds in domestic and international markets, how do these firms grow relative to non-issuing firms, and how does firm performance vary along the firm size distribution (FSD)? To evaluate these questions, we construct a new dataset by matching data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974670
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Growth of global corporate debt : main facts and policy challenges
Abraham, Facundo; Cortina, Juan J.; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2020
expansion of global nonfinancial corporate debt after the 2008-09 global financial crisis. Nonfinancial corporate debt steadily … increased after the crisis, especially in emerging economies. Between 2008 and 2018, corporate debt increased from 56 to 96 …. Nonfinancial corporate debt was mainly issued through bond markets, and its growth can be largely attributed to accommodative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296893
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Tests of ex ante versus ex post theories of collateral using private and public information
Berger, Allen N.; Frame, W. Scott; Ioannidou, Vasso - 2010
Collateral is a widely used, but not well understood, debt-contracting feature. Two broad strands of theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664109
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Reexamining the empirical relation between loan risk and collateral : the roles of collateral characteristics and types
Berger, Allen N.; Frame, Scott; Ioannidou, Vasso - 2011
This paper offers a possible explanation for the conflicting empirical results in the literature concerning the relation between loan risk and collateral. Specifically, we posit that different economic characteristics or types of collateral pledges may be associated with the empirical dominance...
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Market efficiency and limits to arbitrage : evidence from the Volkswagen short squeeze
Allen, Franklin; Haas, Marlene; Nowak, Eric; Tengulov, Angel - 2018
On October 26, 2008, Porsche announced a largely unexpected domination plan for Volkswagen. The resulting short squeeze in Volkswagen's stock briefly made it the most valuable listed company in the world. We argue that this was a manipulation designed to save Porsche from insolvency and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875647
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Does it pay to have friends? : Social ties and executive appointments in banking
Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Koetter, Michael; … - 2011
Social capital theory predicts individuals establish social ties based on homophily, i.e., affinities for similar others. We exploit a unique sample to analyze how similarities and social ties affect career outcomes in banking based on age, education, gender, and employment history to examine if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529217
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Stakeholder governance, competition and firm value
Allen, Franklin; Carletti, Elena; Marquez, Robert - 2014
In many countries, the legal system or social norms ensure that firms are stakeholder oriented. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented firms that are concerned with employees and suppliers compared to shareholder-oriented firms in a model of imperfect competition....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249637
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Global corporate debt during crises : implications of switching borrowing across markets
Cortina, Juan J.; Didier, Tatiana; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2020
, maturity, and currency denomination at the firm and aggregate levels. Using data on worldwide debt issuance from advanced and … corporate bonds during financial crises. Firms reduced their borrowing in shock-hit markets but increased it in other debt … toward domestic markets during international crises, firms reduced the share of foreign currency debt. The opposite occurred …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228743
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Comparative financial systems : a survey
Allen, Franklin (contributor); Gale, Douglas (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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