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studies global bonds to examine the effects of multimarket trading on corporate bond liquidity, prices, and the cost of debt … advantage of global bonds does not fully explain the yield differential. The findings imply that international corporate bond … markets are not fully integrated, and global bond offerings can reduce the cost of debt. …
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This study empirically examines the development of the high-yield segment of the corporate bond market in the United … found to be higher in Europe than in the United States as also macroeconomic factors are considered. The high-yield bond …
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Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are estimated to have a negative impact on the location of new foreign subsidiaries. In fact, the impact of...
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In recent years, demutualized stock exchanges have been increasingly engaging in M&A and alliance activities. To examine the effect of these growth strategies on exchange shareholders’ value creation, we focus on 14 public stock exchanges and investigate their short-run share price responses...
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In 2001, government guarantees for savings banks in Germany were removed following a law suit. We use this natural experiment to examine the effect of government guarantees on bank risk taking, using a large data set of matched bank/borrower information. The results suggest that banks whose...
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The paper shows that mispriced deposit insurance and capital regulation were of second order importance in determining the capital structure of large U.S. and European banks during 1991 to 2004. Instead, standard cross-sectional determinants of non-financial firms’ leverage carry over to...
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This paper aims at providing a detailed analysis of the leading indicator properties of corporate bond spreads for real … economic activity in the euro area. In- and out-of-sample predictive content of corporate bond spreads are examined along three … the composition and the number of relevant model variables evolve over time. Corporate bond spreads turn out to be …
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During 2005-2006, the Chinese government implemented a reform aimed at eliminating the so-called non-tradable shares (NTS), shares typically held by the State or by politically connected institutional investors that were issued at the early stage of financial market development. Our analysis,...
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