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Most firms deleverage from their historical peak market-leverage (ML) ratios to near-zero ML, while also markedly increasing cash balances to high levels. Among 4,476 nonfinancial firms with five or more years of post-peak data, median ML is 0.543 at the peak and 0.026 at the later trough, with...
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This paper documents new and empirically important interactions between cash-balance and leverage dynamics. Cash ratios typically vary widely over extended horizons, with dynamics remarkably similar to (and complementary with) those of capital structure. Leverage and cash dynamics interact...
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This paper examines the use of credit derivatives by US bank holding companies from 1999 to 2003 with assets in excess … only 19 large banks out of 345 use credit derivatives. Though few banks use credit derivatives, the assets of these banks … buyers of credit protection and disclose using credit derivatives to hedge loans. Banks are more likely to be net protection …
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