"This paper provides new evidence regarding the information content of debt ratings. We show that noninvestment grade subordinated issues are consistently priced too high (the yield is too low), and the reverse is true for some investment grade bonds. We relate this empirical bias to a notching...

In this paper, we assume that an energy-conserving technological invention has occurred. Given the cost of equipment replacement and future energy prices, the optimal investment time is calculated. Various assumptions about the nature of replacements, their costs, and the equipment available are...

This paper investigates the design of privatization mechanisms in emerging market economies. We identify an emerging market economy by the political constraints that limit the set of viable privatization mechanisms. Our objective is to explain the striking diversity of privatization mechanisms...

This is an exploration of how bidding behavior of firms in various auctions is affected by their capital structure. The theoretical model considers a first-price sealed bid and an English auction. We find that as debt levels increase, firms tend to reduce their bids. The lower bids give the...

We use a movie industry project-by-project dataset to analyze the choice of financing a project internally versus financing it through outside alliances. The results indicate that project risk is positively correlated with alliance formation. Movie studios produce a variety of films and tend to...

A method for calculating the marginal cost of industrial power cuts is developed. Firms are assumed to hedge against outages by acquiring back-up generators. The marginal cost of back-up power enables us to infer the marginal cost of a power cut.