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Stock liquidity and default risk around the world
Nadarajah, Sivathaasan - 2020
We document the negative effect of stock liquidity on default risk for a sample of 46 countries. We further find that … shock that increases liquidity. The effect of liquidity on default risk is more pronounced in countries with poorer investor … impact of stock liquidity on default risk in international markets …
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Stock Liquidity and SMEs’ Likelihood of Bankruptcy : Evidence from the US Market
El Kalak, Izidin - 2018
We study the association between the stock liquidity of SMEs in the US and their likelihood of bankruptcy, using a … substantial heterogeneity across industries regarding the predictive power of the liquidity measure on the likelihood of … performance tests conclude that adding a liquidity measure variable to the Campbell et al. (2008) model improves its predictive …
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Dynamics of Bankrupt Stocks
Sowers, Richard - 2012
We model and study the behavior of bankrupt stocks. We are interested in the dynamics of stocks and options, and in particular the cost of establishing positions with negative delta.This extends a model of Avellaneda and Lipkin which was used to model hard-to-borrow stocks. This model is a...
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Forecasting Corporate Defaults in the German Stock Market
Mertens, Richard - 2016
We estimate and test several default risk models using new and unique data on corporate defaults in the German stock market. While defaults were extremely rare events in the 1990s, they have been a characteristic feature of the German stock market since the early 2000s. We apply the structural...
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Financial Distress, Short Sale Constraints, and Mispricing
Kim, Dongcheol - 2019
This paper specifically examine how the extent of the distress puzzle differs according to the degree of mispricing and short sale constraints. We find that the distress puzzle observed for overpriced stocks, not for underpriced stocks, becomes insignificant after adjustment for short sale...
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Financial Distress, Short Sale Constraints, and Mispricing
Kim, Dongcheol - 2018
This paper specifically examine how the extent of the distress puzzle differs according to the degree of mispricing and short sale constraints. We find that the distress puzzle observed for overpriced stocks, not for underpriced stocks, becomes insignificant after adjustment for short sale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908901
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Creditor Rights, Claims Enforcement, and Bond Returns in Mergers and Acquisitions
Renneboog, Luc - 2016
By means of an international sample of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) involving firms with outstanding Eurobonds from the US, Europe, and other countries around the world, we show that bond performance around M&A announcements is sensitive to cross-country differences in creditor...
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The Altman ‘Z’ is ‘50’ and Still Young : Bankruptcy Prediction and Stock Market Reaction Due to Sudden Exogenous Shock
Poudel, Rajeeb - 2019
This study is motivated by the continuing popularity of the Altman Z-score as a measure of distress risk. Altman first introduced the ‘Z' score in 1968 and 50 years later it is still going strong as a means to predicting bankruptcy. During these 50 years, academicians have studied the...
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Financial distress and stock comovement : Evidence, explanation, and implication
Fang, Jing - 2022
Contrary to the financial distress premium notion, the stocks of financially distressed firms comove least. Financially distressed firms are characterized by high valuation uncertainty and information and arbitrage frictions. Therefore, their stocks are prone to mispricing and their stock price...
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A 'Wreckers Theory' of Financial Distress
von Kalckreuth, Ulf - 2016
In recent years, a number of papers have established a new empirical regularity. Stocks of distressed firms vastly underperform those of financially healthy firms. It is not necessary to attribute the negative excess returns of distressed firms to inefficient or irrational markets. We show that...
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