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's risk-taking incentive and investment choice. We find the average chief executive officer's (CEO) compensation contract …
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The interaction of capital and risk for trading and treasury units is of primary interest in the corporate governance … of banks as it links operational profitability and strategic risk management. During the financial crisis, several banks …' trading units suffered significantly higher losses than their risk capital charged based on value-at-risk constraints. There …
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In this paper, we examine whether managers time their debt-equity choices to exploit market mispricing. Controlling for the level of external financing and corporate investment activities, we find evidence consistent with the market timing hypothesis. We find managers issue more equity relative...
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Preqin and Pitchbook data are classified and analyzed to derive a coherent set of risk-return assumptions to combine … PD, PC detailed per subclass. Risk is decomposed in Class CoVariance, applicable from five positions upwards, and Single …, Class or Single, Sep2022 or low interest rates Sep2021. Adding PE and PD reduces LDI-risk very much and delivers …
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managers have a consistent impact on corporate policies, providing support for the "behavioral consistency" theory. Further … reduce its financial risk. …
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In previous works, the importance of risk management implementation was addressed with regard to the problem of … bankruptcy threat, with the explanation of risk impact on higher bankruptcy costs or the underinvestment problem. However, the … evaluation of the impact of risk outcomes is technically linked to risk frequency and risk severity as the two dimensions of the …
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. Real option theory argues that research projects with conditional phases have option-like risk and return properties, and … portfolio risk, and changes diversification arguments when a portfolio is constructed. When R&D projects exhibit option … are different from unconditional projects. We show that although the risk of a portfolio always depends on the correlation …
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Many institutional investors depend on the returns they generate to fund their operations and liabilities. How do these investors' financial conditions affect the management of their portfolios? We address this issue using the insurance industry because insurers are large investors for which...
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the riskiness of the sponsor's guarantee and risk-shifting incentives at pension funds.Lastly, this paper shows that … offering pension funds a limited, riskless external insurance against sponsor risk to replace the potentially unlimited but … risky sponsor guarantee reduces the risk-shifting incentives at pension funds and fully mitigates sponsor risk. The …
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dynamic trading strategy based on the sponsor's shares.The paper "Managing Sponsor Risk in Pension Plans: Dynamic Strategies …
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