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Exchanges and other trading platforms are often vertically integrated to carry out trading, clearing and settlement as one operation. We show that such vertical silos can prevent efficiency gains from horizontal consolidation of trading and settlement platforms to be realized. Independent of the...
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An unprecedented process of financial consolidation has taken place in the European Union over the past decade. Building on earlier US evidence, we examine the impact of strategic similarities between bidders and targets on post-merger financial performance. We find that, on average, bank...
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finance more small firms, but incur higher costs than centralized ones. Small banks are interpreted as a bank with relatively …
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crisis. We use a comprehensive data set that contains contract terms on individual loans to 6,047 firms across 14 European … rapidly integrating markets, firms became substantially overleveraged during the build-up to the crisis. …
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, the first Strategy Paper, covering the period 2007-2010, was adopted by the European Commission in August 2007, paving the … fulfilled its objectives. Therefore, the Strategy Paper 2011-2013 is in strong continuity with the previous one and contains … only limited changes and amendments. As for the period 2007-2010, the revised EIDHR Strategy Paper retains, for the period …
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This study empirically examines the development of the high-yield segment of the corporate bond market in the United States, as a pioneer country, and the United Kingdom and the euro area, as later adopting countries. Estimated diffusion models show for the United States a significant pioneer...
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the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are estimated to have a negative impact on the …, possibly reflecting its international discriminatory nature. For the cross-section of multinational firms, we find that parent … firms tend to be located in countries with a relatively low taxation of foreign-source income. Overall, our results show …
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