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measure that captures company distress levels more accurately. It is found that liquidity, proxied by a trading noise …-to-default measures. When our new liability and liquidity adjusted measure is used, a clearer picture of distress premium emerges. Our …
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We develop a unified framework to connect cash holding, debt maturity and mergers and acquisitions. We provide empirical support for four internally consistent predictions: i) equity and debt values of highly distressed firms are more sensitive to cash reserve than those of healthy firms; ii)...
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We study the effect of rollover risk on the risk of default using a comprehensive database of U.S. industrial firms during 1986–2013 This article is the most thoroughgoing empirical research to date to support the existence of a rollover risk effect on the risk of default. A one standard...
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This empirical examination of the effect of rollover risk on default risk uses a database of U.S. industrial firms during 1986-2011. This article represents the most comprehensive empirical study to date to support the existence of a rollover risk effect on default risk. This paper investigates...
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How do risky firms with low cash flow finance their liquidity needs? This paper investigates a relatively common, but …
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We examine if the risk premia of the size effect on equity REITs (EREITs) are time-varying by using GARCH models. We also investigate how macroeconomic factors affect the size premia. We reexamine the size effect by using Fama-French three-factor model to demonstrate that the size effect exists...
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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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: undiversifiable interest rate risk and shocks to aggregate liquidity demand. Mutual funds are inefficient when the economy faces … undiversifiable interest rate risk. However, if only aggregate liquidity demand is stochastic, mutual funds can implement the social … optimum even when liquidity demand is not directly observed. …
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