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volatility in wholesale markets. Empirically, higher volatility of electricity prices leads to an increase in cash holdings, and … this effect is robust to instrumenting for price risk using weather volatility. Cash increases more with price risk in …
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rates. However, they are likely to benefit from diversification of cash flows and flexibility in capital sources. We show … that multinational firms, indeed, have a better access to foreign capital markets and a lower cost of debt than otherwise …
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The past decade has seen significant changes in the structure of the corporate lending market, with non-commercial bank institutional investors playing larger roles than they historically have played. In addition, non-commercial bank institutional lenders are often equity holders in their...
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Ensuring that a firm has sufficient liquidity to finance valuable projects that occur in the future is at the heart of the practice of financial management. However, although discussion of these issues goes back at least to Keynes (1936), a substantial literature on the ways in which firms...
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We analyze a unique database from a sample of real-world boardrooms – minutes of board meetings and board-committee meetings of eleven business companies for which the Israeli government holds a substantial equity interest. We use these data to evaluate the underlying assumptions and...
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This paper reexamines the empirical evidence on the cash flow sensitivity of cash presented by Almeida, Campello, and … Weisbach (2004). The original paper introduces a model in which financially constrained firms choose to save cash out of … incremental cash flows but financially unconstrained do not. The authors find evidence consistent with this hypothesis on a sample …
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In public-policy discussions about corporate disclosure, more is typically judged better than less. In particular, better disclosure is seen as a way to reduce the agency problems that plague firms. We show that this view is incomplete. In particular, our theoretical analysis shows that...
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This paper examines the view that non-U.S. firms cross-list in the United States to increase protection of their minority shareholders. We find that firms from French Civil Law countries, which have relatively weak protections for minority shareholders, are more likely to cross-list on an...
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Can algorithms assist firms in their decisions on nominating corporate directors? Directors predicted to do poorly by algorithms indeed do poorly compared to a realistic pool of candidates in out-of-sample tests. Predictably bad directors are more likely to be male, accumulate more...
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How does global warming affect firms' activities? We consider this issue from the perspective of theelectricity producing industry. Warmer temperatures increase the demand for air conditioning, the use of which fluctuates substantially over time, making investments in “flexible” power plants...
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