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Diversified firms often trade at a discount with respect to their focused counterparts. The literature has tried to explain the apparent misallocation of resources with lobbying activities or power struggles. We show that diversification can destroy value even when resources are efficiently...
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Continuing this series on the theory of financial management, the current article investigates capital structure, offering insight into the roles of stockholder wealth maximization, the risk-return trade-off, and agency conflicts. Much literature addresses this topic, and some of the most recent...
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Foreign currency loans to the unhedged non-banking sector are remarkably prevalent in Europe and create a significant … exchange-rate-induced credit risk to European banking sectors. In particular, Swiss franc (CHF)-denominated loans, popular in … that banks in Europe have continuously held more foreign-currency-denominated assets than liabilities, indicating their …
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bargaining power in default, operating in more competitive product markets, and facing lower credit supply are more likely to …
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-affiliated, and low-leverage companies incline more towards this strategy. Credit rating, debt maturity, financial and interest …
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This paper is one of the first to investigate the determinants of bond issuance by European banks. We use a unique database of around 50,000 bonds issued by 63 banks from 14 European countries, allowing us to differentiate between different types of long-term debt securities. By investigating at...
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. Despite the hype, equity crowdfunding is still the smallest. Due to exemptions in legislations, Europe has been at the … start-ups can play job creation and economic growth in Europe. In this paper, we assess the potential role of equity …
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This paper is one of the first to investigate the determinants of bond issuance by European banks. We use a unique database of around 50,000 bonds issued by 63 banks from 14 European countries to test explicitly a broad set of hypotheses on the drivers of bond issuance. The sample covers the two...
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