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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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Firms conduct SEOs to resolve a near-term liquidity squeeze, and not primarily to exploit market timing opportunities. Without the SEO proceeds, 62.6% of issuers would have insufficient cash to implement their chosen operating and non-SEO financing decisions the year after the SEO. Although the...
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Firms conduct SEOs to resolve a near-term liquidity squeeze, and not primarily to exploit market timing opportunities. Without the SEO proceeds, 62.6% of issuers would have insufficient cash to implement their chosen operating and non-SEO financing decisions the year after the SEO. Although the...
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Firms conduct SEOs to resolve a near-term liquidity squeeze, and not primarily to exploit market timing opportunities. Without the SEO proceeds, 62.6% of issuers would have insufficient cash to implement their chosen operating and non-SEO financing decisions the year after the SEO. Although the...
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"Although firm financial policies were affected by a credit contraction during the recent financial crisis, the impact … of increased uncertainty and decreased growth opportunities was stronger than that of the credit contraction per se. From …-grade non-financial firms show no evidence of suffering from an exceptional systemic credit contraction. Instead of decreasing …
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Although firm financial policies were affected by a credit contraction during the recent financial crisis, the impact … of increased uncertainty and decreased growth opportunities was stronger than that of the credit contraction per se. From …-grade non-financial firms show no evidence of suffering from an exceptional systemic credit contraction. Instead of decreasing …
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