This study is an empirical attempt to investigate the effects of balance sheet deterioration of Japanese firms and banks during the 1990s on credit allocation using the Short-term Economic Survey of Enterprises. This survey includes a unique item: the proportion of firms perceiving the lending...

Recent literature has pointed out that information asymmetries may be the reason for the poor performance of structural credit risk models to fit corporate bond data. It is well known in fact that these models lead to a strong understatement of the credit spread terms structure, particularly on...

В дискуссионном материале № 34 представляются ресультаты анкетирования по вопросам собственности и рентабельности в 100 крупных сельскохозяйственных пред-...

Im vorliegenden Discussion Paper 32 werden Untersuchungsergebnisse zu den Eigentumsverhältnissen und zur Rentabilität in 100 russischen Großbetrieben vorgelegt, die im Jahre 2000 mittels Befragungen im Gebiet Wolgograd gewonnen worden sind. Sie ordnen sich in die Forschungsarbeiten zur...

This paper shows that obligations from debt hinder tacit collusion if equity owners are protected by limited liability. In contrast to its advantageous commitment value in short-run competition, leverage reduces profits from infinite interaction. Contrasting uncorrelated shocks with a cyclical...

We analyze shareholders' incentives to change the leverage of a firm that has already borrowed substantially. As a result of debt overhang, shareholders have incentives to resist reductions in leverage that make the remaining debt safer. This resistance is present even without any government...

Eine bilanzielle Überschuldung als Endstation einer negativen Entwicklung hat ihren Ausgangspunkt in Verlusten. Im Folgenden soll dargestellt und veranschaulicht werden, welche markanten Stufen sich hinsichtlich des Ausmaßes von Verlusten unterscheiden lassen.

What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most...

We present a model of neighborhood effects in wage payment delays. Positive feedback arises because each employer?s arrears affect the late payment costs faced by other firms in the same local labor market, resulting in a strategic complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on panel...

We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...