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Using a unique dataset of home equity credit contracts, we examine the benefits of joint liability lending. Our results … single borrowers. Our results indicate that the lower risk associated with joint liability is largely dependent upon the … similarity of risk characteristics (profiles) of the joint borrowers. Our results suggest that joint liability lending per say …
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This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily … quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector …. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become less risky and more closely correlated with the financial sector …
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This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily … quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector …. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become less risky and more closely correlated with the financial sector …
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We examine the stock price reaction of rival firms to privatization announcements to infer information about industry effects of privatization. We find that the rival firms reacted negatively to privatization announcements, thus suggesting that the announcement effects reflect competitive...
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This article belongs to the current in research literature, which is concerned with value relevance. Its main aim is to test the impact of the current and future accounting variables on the firm's market value, by analyzing these relations with reference to the financial sector of the Italian...
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We question the impact of government guarantees on the pricing of default risk in credit and stock markets and, using a Merton-type credit model, provide evidence of a structural break in the valuation of U.S. bank debt in the course of the 2007-2009 financial crisis, manifesting in a lowered...
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The information produced by sophisticated investors in the stock market may be useful for uninformed depositors. Since much information is not produced for Shinkin banks (cooperatives) in Japan, relying on the information from the stock market may be an efficient decision for these depositors....
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Central banks have run during the crisis a wide set of monetary policy interventions using new instruments and techniques to restore the monetary stability and thus re-establish the stability of financial (and banking) systems. We analyze the effect of monetary policy interventions on stock...
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In this paper we provide empirical evidence of abnormal returns associated with credit rating changes for a sample of 264 credit ratings announcements by 43 international and US banks between 2000 and 2012. The banks in the sample have either a primary or secondary US listing. We provide...
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