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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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The aim of this paper is to study the determinants of sovereign debt maturity for 23 European countries during the … between the level of debt of the country and sovereign debt maturity, particularly for countries with the lowest debt maturity …. We also find evidence of a negative relationship between sovereign risk and debt maturity for the lowest and intermediate …
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The year 2009 is a propitious time to evaluate systems of investor protection in financial markets as global bank losses exceed the 1 trillion mark and market losses equally exceed the 1 trillion mark. Prior to the Global Financial Crisis, the European Union enacted sweeping legislation to...
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In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that government debt as a percentage of GDP has a negative impact (among others) on banking profitability. This impact will be even worse when this debt as a percentage of GDP exceeds a certain critical level. The sample covers during the...
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In this paper, we study and test the monetary denominational systems satisfying a given constraint of cognitive complexity. We show that introducing an 80 cents coin in the European denominational system would decrease the average number of coins needed in the economy by about 16%
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