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Estimating Managers' Utility Maximizing Demand for Agency Goods
Hughes, Joseph P.; Moon, Choon-Geol - 2003
An empirical model of managers' demand for agency goods is derived and estimated using the Almost Ideal Demand System … of Deaton and Muellbauer (AER 1980). As in Jensen and Meckling (JFE 1976), we derive managers' demand for agency goods by … maximizing a managerial utility function where managers allocate the potential value of their firm's assets to the consumption of …
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Does Culture Affect Corporate Governance?
Gantenbein, Pascal; Volonté, Christophe - 2012
The legal environment is one important determinant of corporate governance. However, within legal families, also cultural differences can explain the level of corporate governance to some extent. We analyze this relationship for the case of Switzerland. Swiss firms are mainly located in two...
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DAXplus family: Ein Aktienindex zur Darstellung der Performance von Familienunternehmen
Achleitner, Ann-Kristin; Kaserer, Christoph; Kauf, Tobias; … - 2010
In January 2010 the Deutsche Börse Group introduced two family firm stock indices. Both indices are calculated as price and performance indices and extend the number of investment strategy indices of Deutsche Börse Group. The DAXplus Family is an all-share index whereas the DAXplus Family 30...
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The German entrepreneurial index (GEX®): a primer on an ownership-based style index in Germany
Achleitner, Ann-Kristin; Kaserer, Christoph; … - 2009
Recent research indicates that the majority of listed firms in Germany (and also in many other countries around the world) have a dominant owner rather than being widely-held. Hence, owner-dominated firms comprise an important subset of listed companies. This article introduces the concept of an...
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Shadow banking: Financial intermediation beyond banks
Jokivuolle, Esa (contributor) - 2018
Shadow banking is a broad concept. A possible definition is that it comprises non-bank institutions which undertake bank-like activities. Another characteristic is that the sector is overall less regulated. Therefore there are still shortcomings in systematic collection of information of the sector.
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Regulating liquidity risk in mutual funds
Cucic, Dominic - 2021
I analyze the effects of liquidity risk regulation in a model of investors, mutual funds, and the underlying asset market. Investor redemptions lead mutual funds to sell assets, which may result in fire sales if market liquidity, driven by the anticipation of fire sales, is scarce. Mutual funds...
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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...
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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
We study the effects of the diversification of funding sources on the financing conditions for firms. We exploit a regulatory reform which took place in Italy in 2012, i.e., the introduction of "minibonds", which opened a new market-based funding opportunity for unlisted firms. Using the Italian...
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Explaining Hedge Fund Investment Styles by Loss Aversion
Siegmann, Arjen; Lucas, André - 2002
Recent research reveals that hedge fund returns exhibit a range of different,possibly non-linear pay-off patterns. It is difficult to qualify all these patternssimultaneously as being rational in a traditional framework for optimal financial decisionmaking. In this paper we present a simple...
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Risk spillover among hedge funds: The role of redemptions and fund failures
Klaus, Benjamin; Rzepkowski, Bronka - 2009
This paper aims at analysing the mortality patterns of hedge funds over the period January 1994 to May 2008. In particular, we investigate the extent to which a spillover of risk among hedge funds through redemptions and failures of other funds has affected the probability of fund failure. We...
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