Using the records of several leading 19th century issuing houses, this paper analyses the transformation of underwriting practices in London's primary sovereign bond market from 1870 to 1914. It shows how underwriting risk developed from being a liability, which market intermediaries sought to...

This paper uses new data on the timing of sovereign defaults during 1869-1914 to quantify an informational channel of contagion via shared financial intermediaries. Concerns over reputation incentivized Britain's merchant banks to monitor, advise, and occasionally bail out sovereigns. Default...

A Chinese subsidiary of a foreign bank issued yuan-denominated bonds on China's domestic interbank bond market for the first time on 20 May 2010. China's corporate bond market, although split between an exchange and an OTC market, has been growing since 2008, but total corporate bonds...

We think Basel III and the rules proposed by the IFSB based on Basel III will affect the global sukuk (Islamic bond) market as follows:1. The possibility of increased domestic and international issuance by Islamic banks of sukuk that can be counted toward capital so as to meet the increase in...

We find that green bonds exhibit higher capacity to borrow foreign capital in local currency than regular bonds issued by the same firm, which reduces currency mismatch risk in corporates' balance sheets while increasing that in investors'. We further show that this is driven by climate policy,...

International debt financing is important for the development of emerging economies, as it gives firms from emerging markets (EMs) access to greater liquidity, a wider investor base and more effective laws and regulations. However, the financial crisis in the late 1990s, coupled with recent...

From 2000 to 2015 there was a large increase in U.S. dollar debt issues by Chinese firms. Financial policy makers have been concerned about potentially serious negative consequences from this rapid growth in foreign currency corporate debt. We first observe that the average growth rate of these...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to model asymmetric information and study the profitability of venture capital (VC) backed initial public offerings (IPOs). Our mixtures approach endogenously separates IPOs into differentiated groups based on their returns’ determinants. We also...

In this study we examine how Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) were used as a financing tool for companies in the shipping industry in period 2004-2011. We confirm that SPACs focused on acquisitions in the shipping industry have similar characteristics as the population of SPACs...

This paper studies how institutional characteristics of Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) are related to their post-merger survival. SPACs are unique financial firms that conduct the IPO with the solely purpose to use the proceeds to acquire another private company. Paper finds...