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Bank credit and market-based finance for corporations : the effects of minibond issuances
Ongena, Steven; Pinoli, Sara; Rossi, Paola; Scopelliti, … - 2021
issuer firms expand their total assets and fixed assets, and also raise their leverage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614108
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Bank credit and market-based finance for corporations : the effects of minibond issuances
Ongena, Steven; Pinoli, Sara; Rossi, Paola; Scopelliti, … - 2020
their leverage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419623
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Leveraging SME finance through value chains in Kazakhstan
Kapparov, Kassymkhan - 2019
One of the major issues for SME development has been access to finance. This paper examines the current state of SME development and financing in Kazakhstan. It also examines the current state of the development of value chains and discusses barriers for agriculture value chain financing. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113904
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Bank credit and market-based finance for corporations : the effects of minibond issuances
Ongena, Steven; Pinoli, Sara; Rossi, Paola; Scopelliti, … - 2020
-post performance, we find that issuer firms expand their total assets and fixed assets, and also raise their leverage. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390449
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Market timing of long-term debt issuance
Witmer, Jonathan - 2009
The literature on market timing of long-term debt issuance yields mixed evidence that managers can successfully time … their debt-maturity issuance. The early results that are indicative of debt-maturity timing are not robust to accounting for … structural breaks or to other measures of debt maturity from firm-level data that account for call and put provisions in debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933249
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Sovereign wealth fund investment patterns and performance
Bortolotti, Bernardo; Fotak, Veljko; Megginson, William L. - 2009
We examine 802 investments by 33 Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) in publicly traded companies between May 1985 and November 2009, and find that SWFs tend to invest in large, levered, profitable growth firms, usually headquartered in an OECD country. Announcements of SWF investments yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810291
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The deep-pocket effect of internal capital markets
Boutin, Xavier; Cestone, Giacinta; Fumagalli, Chiara; … - 2009
We provide evidence suggesting that incumbents' access to group deep pockets has a negative impact on entry in product markets. Relying on a unique French data set on business groups, our paper presents three major findings. First, the amount of cash holdings owned by incumbent-affiliated groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824490
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Corporate governance and firm value : international evidence
Ammann, Manuel; Oesch, David; Schmid, Markus M. - 2010
In this paper, we investigate the relation between firm-level corporate governance and firm value based on a large and previously unused dataset from Governance Metrics International (GMI) comprising 6,663 firm-year observations from 22 developed countries over the period from 2003 to 2007....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306609
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Responding to the global financial and economic crisis : meeting the challenges in Asia
Arner, Douglas W.; Schou-Zibell, Lotte - 2010
Based on a review of international and regional responses to the global financial and economic crisis and its implications for finance in Asia, Douglas Arner and Lotte Schou-Zibell draw lessons for Asian financial systems with regard to the scope of regulation; financial standards; supervision,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283429
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Employment and wage insurance within firms : worldwide evidence
Ellul, Andrew; Pagano, Marco; Schivardi, Fabiano - 2015
We investigate the determinants of firms' implicit insurance to employees, using a difference-indifference approach: we rely on differences between family and non-family firms to identify the supply of insurance, and exploit variation in unemployment insurance across and within countries to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337034