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foreign venture capital in China. It also discusses the recent developments, advantages and disadvantages of various China …-run performance of the U.S.-listed China Venture-backed IPOs between 2000 and 2005. …
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This paper presents a theoretical framework to describe the behaviour of the credit rating agencies(CRAs) during the crisis, surveying some reputational game models. CRAs have been blamed of inflating ratings of the new credit risk transfer products (CRTs) and of acting in favour of issuers...
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This paper covers the long-term evolution of the primary market for foreign government debt. We discuss the role of financial intermediaries as underwriters and distributors of securities, providers of information, and lending of last resort services since the early 19th century, and the...
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We examine the relations among analyst coverage, analyst optimism, and firm-specific stock price crash risk. Using a unique Chinese database, we find that an increase in a firm's analyst coverage leads to an increase in stock price crash risk and this positive relation is more pronounced when...
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The recent subprime crisis and the ongoing Euro zone crisis have generated an enormous interest in the credit rating industry not only among economists but also among average citizens. As a consequence, we have seen an explosion of the economic literature on the industry. The objective of this...
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-power hypothesis, and contradict the traditional certification hypothesis and underlying reputation mechanism. …
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-power hypothesis, and contradict the traditional certification hypothesis and underlying reputation mechanism. …
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Reputation of financial institutions is crucial for their activity and performance. Participant banks often rely on … lead bank’s reputation in making future syndicated loan participation and lending decisions. We apply ordered probit … regression techniques to a sample of more than 4,600 loans to investigate the determinants of participant banks reputation on the …
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This paper examines to what extent reputational concerns give rating agencies incentives to reveal information. It demonstrates that, in a simple model in which a rating agency has public and private information about a project, it may ignore private information and even contradict public...
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Social networks and reputation are believed to play important roles in mitigating informational frictions related to … financial intermediation, in particular bank lending. We investigate the effect of the network and reputation of financial …
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