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In the light of the recent financial crisis, the discussion on the nature of runs and on the stabilizing role of liquidity holdings has intensified. This paper explores the cash management conducted by German open-end equity funds for the period between 2005 and 2010. Since ownership structures...
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Recent empirical evidence suggests that US industrial firms invest heavily in noncash, risky financial assets. Using hand-collected data on financial portfolios of German firms, we show that risky asset holdings are not an anomaly unique to the US. We find that industrial firms in Germany invest...
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' capital structure, investment and profitability. The identification of the causal effects is based on the escape clauses in … base. In general, in the short term, no negative investment effects are caused by the TCR. This suggests that a part of the …, investment might also be fixed in the short-run for example due to long-lasting contracts. -- Thin capitalization ; earnings …
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In the light of the recent financial crisis, the discussion on the nature of runs and on the stabilizing role of liquidity holdings has intensified. This paper explores the cash management conducted by German open-end equity funds for the period between 2005 and 2010. Since ownership structures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072782
In the light of the recent financial crisis, the discussion on the nature of runs and on the stabilizing role of liquidity holdings has intensified. This paper explores the cash management conducted by German open-end equity funds for the period between 2005 and 2010. Since ownership structures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988654
We examine cash holdings and leverage levels of German listed (non-financial and non-utility) firms. We document a secular increase in cash ratios over the last twenty years (1992–2011), reducing the net debt book leverage ratio for the average sample firm close to zero. Using pre-diction...
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interest owed to foreign affiliates would not only affect multinationals' capital structure choice but also investment. An …-capitalization rules on capital structure choice and investment in the OECD and some further European countries in the time period between … loans. However, investment is found to be adversely affected …
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We use a dynamic framework and panel methodology to investigate the determinants of a firms' time-varying capital structure. Our sample comprises 706 European firms from France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. over the period from 1983 to 2002. If capital structure adjustment is costly, firms may...
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