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De- and re-levering betas is important to obtain discount rates for assets that are not publicly traded. A de- and re-levering procedure is around for the case of risk-free debt. The procedure for risky debt is much less clear even under very simplifying assumptions. In this paper, I concretize...
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model predicts the negative impact of inflation on real equity values is stronger for low leverage firms. We find empirical …
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This paper examines the dynamic relationship between firm leverage and risktaking. We embed the traditional agency … problem of asset substitution within a multi-period model, revealing a U-shaped relationship between leverage and risktaking …, evident in data from both the U.S. and Europe. Firms with medium leverage avoid risk to preserve the option of issuing safe …
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corporate leverage relationship. Using stepwise regression analysis and annual firm-level data of 2,534 U.S. firms listed at … NYSE over 1995-2018, we provide novel evidence that cash holdings significantly and partially mediate the EPU-leverage … relationship, accounting for a 10.72% increase in the corporate leverage during EPU. We discover that the mediating role of cash …
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This paper explains the emergence of liquidity traps in the aftermath of large-scale financial crises, as happened in the US 1930s, Japan 1990s and recently in the US and Europe. The paper introduces a new balance sheet channel that links equity capital to the risk-free interest rate. When...
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shocks, as well as symmetric, asymmetric and leverage effects. Three different Heterogeneous Auto Regressive (HAR) models …. Somewhat unusually, leverage effects are observed in EGARCH for Medical-type tourists, which shows a negative correlation … asymmetric impacts on volatility show that negative shocks have larger effects than do positive shocks. The leverage effect in …
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We develop a dynamic model of banking to assess the effects of liquidity and leverage requirements on banks' insolvency … requirements with leverage requirements reduces drastically both the likelihood of default and the magnitude of bank losses in …
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When firms approach distress, whether they engage in asset substitution (risk shifting) or rebuild equity (risk management) may depend on their access to capital markets. The property-casualty insurance industry has two features that make it ideal for testing this hypothesis: (1) the main losses...
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in changing debt maturity and the deviation to leverage target to gauge the causal relationship, and identify the reduced …
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changing debt maturity and the deviation to leverage target to gauge the causal relationship, and identify the reduced …
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