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This paper investigates the gap-filling explanation for corporate debt maturity choices in a multi-country setting. We … argue that companies adjust their debt maturity in response to shocks in government debt maturity both at home and abroad … results have relevant implications for the opportunity for individual governments to use their debt maturity structure as a …
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This paper examines how product market threats shape the use of performance pricing in loan contracts. Loan contracting faces a trade-off between financial markets and product markets: while using contractual terms that are linked to borrower performance -- such as performance pricing --...
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The study is divided into four broad parts, beginning with an exploratory analysis of the data on expost returns on corporate equities and bonds for the 1926-80 period. In Part 2, we estimate the relationships between one-month expost returns on corporate bonds and equities andvariations in...
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The study is divided into four broad parts, beginning with an exploratory analysis of the data on expost returns on corporate equities and bonds for the 1926-80 period. In Part 2, we estimate the relationships between one-month expost returns on corporate bonds and equities andvariations in...
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Using a Bayesian vector autoregression (BVAR) identified with a mix of sign and zero restrictions, we show that a restrictive bank loan supply shock has a strong and persistent negative impact on real GDP and the GDP deflator. This result comes about even though flows of other sources of...
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Recent international financial research finds that a firm's capital structure is not only influenced by firm- and industry-specific determinants, but also by country-specific factors. A brief review of the last decade's studies on the country effect identifies some areas of potential development...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between corporate taxation, firm age and debt. We adapt a standard model of capital structure choice under corporate taxation, focusing on the financing and investment decisions a firm is typically faced with. Our model suggests that the debt ratio is...
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The objective of this paper is to investigate the process of company´s debt accumulation in different European countries throughout the last decade. As a preliminary step to the empirical study, a new theoretical framework is proposed relative to capital structure, where the decision of going...
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