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Determinants of acquisition and failure : stylized facts and lessons for empirical studies
Köke, F. Jens - 2001
This study provides new stylized facts on the determinants of corporate failure and acquisition in Germany. It also offers important lessons for the design of empirical studies. We show that firms experiencing failure or acquisition are significantly different from surviving firms on a number of...
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Ownership Structure, Revenue Diversification and Insolvency Risk in European Banks
Sanya, Sarah - 2011
, an insight into how the ownership structure of a bank affects investment decisions, performance and ultimately insolvency … risk - the focus of this paper - is crucial. Our results show revenue diversification reduces insolvency risk in banks with … the impact of the latter on insolvency risk in banks. The results also have important policy implications for regulators …
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Large Shareholders and Financial Distress
Opp, Christian C. - 2019
I examine large shareholders' externalities on other claim holders when firms are financially distressed. To this end, I develop a tractable dynamic model of the interplay between these blockholders and regular equity holders. Blockholders' information acquisition and investment decisions play a...
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Private Equity and the Resolution of Financial Distress
Hotchkiss, Edith S. - 2020
We examine the role private equity (PE) firms play in the resolution of financial distress using a sample of 2,151 firms that borrow in the leveraged loan market between 1997 and 2010. Controlling for leverage, PE-backed firms are no more likely to default than other leveraged loan borrowers....
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Common Ownership and Bankruptcy
Anderson, Ronald C.; Durrani, Farooq; John, Kose - 2021
Distressed firms and the banks that lend to these firms often have conflicting interests when going through the Chapter 11 process, freefall bankruptcy vs prepack bankruptcy. We examine whether common ownership, i.e., an institution with holdings in both the borrowing and the lending firms,...
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Foundations of corporate law
Armour, John; Hansmann, Henry B.; Kraakman, Reinier H.; … - 2017
This paper is the first chapter of the third edition of The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach, by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda Mariana Pargendler, Georg Ringe, and Edward Rock...
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Firm Leverage and Bankruptcy Regimes : Does Ownership of Lenders Matter?
Jose, Jibin; Borad, Abhinandan - 2022
In this paper, we ask how firms’ optimal debt structure responds to a change in the bankruptcy regime. While existing work shows that this relationship is dependent on the ex-ante liquidation value of a firm, we demonstrate that the ownership of lenders they are connected to also matters. We...
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Corporate governance as antecedents and financial distress as a consequence of credit risk : evidence from Iraqi banks
Abdullah Mohammed Sadaa; Yuvaraj Ganesan; Yet, Chu Ei; … - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 9 (2023) 2, pp. 1-16
This study examines the antecedents and consequences of credit risk (CR) in Iraqi banks' context from 2011 to 2020. POLS, FEM, and REM regression estimators were used to test the hypotheses after obtaining an appropriate model. The hypotheses test findings on CR antecedents reveal that the...
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Insider ownership and default risk : what does the data reveal about Japanese firms?
Haque, Humaira; Kabir, Md. Nurul; Abedin, Syeda Humayra; … - In: China Accounting and Finance Review 26 (2024) 3, pp. 354-384
Purpose The ownership structure in Japanese firms has experienced a significant change recently, fueled primarily by regulatory changes. This has important repercussions on corporate performance and risk. This paper examines the impact of insider ownership on the default risk of Japanese firms....
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Privatization and changing ownership in the steel industry
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