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Is rated debt arm's length? Evidence from mergers and acquisitions
Gropp, Reint E.; Hirsch, Christian; Krahnen, Jan Pieter - 2011
In this paper we challenge the view that corporate bonds are always arm's length debt. We analyze the effect of bond ratings on the stock price return to acquirers in M&A transactions, which tend to have significant effects on creditor wealth. We find acquirers abnormal returns to be higher if...
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Solutions for small and medium-sized entreprises' difficulties in accessing finance: Asian experiences
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad - 2017
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the Asian economy. They make up more than 96% of all Asian businesses that provide two out of three private sector jobs in the continent. Therefore, it is vitally important for the Asian economies' economic success that they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852998
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The role of SMEs in Asia and their difficulties in accessing finance
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad - 2018
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the Asian economy. They make up more than 96% of all Asian businesses, providing two out of three private-sector jobs on the continent. Therefore, it is vital for Asian economies' economic success that they have fully functioning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254893
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Emerging East Asian Banking Systems Ten Years after the 1997/98 Crisis
Adams, Charles - 2008
This paper looks at the development of the banking sector in emerging East Asia in the 10 years since the financial crisis of 1997/98. It suggests that the health of banking sectors in the region has improved substantially, with key changes including increased foreign ownership, movement into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507462
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Liquidity hoarding
Gale, Douglas; Yorulmazer, Tanja - 2011
Banks hold liquid and illiquid assets. An illiquid bank that receives a liquidity shock sells assets to liquid banks in exchange for cash. We characterize the constrained efficient allocation as the solution to a planner's problem and show that the market equilibrium is constrained inefficient,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287074
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Two-sided Certification: The market for Rating Agencies
Fasten, Erik R.; Hofmann, Dirk - 2010
Certifiers contribute to the sound functioning of markets by reducing a symmetric information. They, however, have been heavily criticized during the 2008-09 financial crisis. This paper investigates on which side of the market a monopolistic profit-maximizing certifier offers his service. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334122
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Two-sided certification: The market for rating agencies
Fasten, Erik R.; Hofmann, Dirk - 2010
Certifiers contribute to the sound functioning of markets by reducing asymmetric information. They, however, have been heavily criticized during the 2008-09 financial crisis. This paper investigates on which side of the market a monopolistic profit-maximizing certifier offers his service. If the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270720
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Why do borrowers pledge collateral? New empirical evidence on the role of asymmetric information
Berger, Allen N.; Espinosa-Vega, Marco A.; Frame, W. Scott - 2007
consistent with this central implication of the private-information models and support the empirical importance of this theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292292
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Securitization and moral hazard: Evidence from a lender cutoff rule
Bubb, Ryan; Kaufman, Alex - 2009
perapplicant fixed costs in screening. We then demonstrate that our theory fits the data better than the main alternative theory … already in the literature, which supposes cutoff rules are exogenously used by securitizers. Furthermore, we use our theory to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286943
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Securitization and moral hazard: Evidence from credit score cutoff rules
Bubb, Ryan; Kaufman, Alex - 2011
research has hypothesized that these cutoff rules result from a securitization rule of thumb. Under this theory, an observed … model that rationalizes such an origination rule of thumb. Under this alternative theory, jumps in default are not evidence … securitization rule-of-thumb theory but consistent with the origination rule-of-thumb theory. There are jumps in the number of loans …
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