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We propose and test a theory of corporate liquidity management in which credit lines provided by banks to firms are a …
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We propose and test a theory of corporate liquidity management in which credit lines provided by banks to firms are a …
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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...
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We study business uncertainty in high- versus low-volatility environments by surveying over 31,000 managers across 41 countries. We elicit subjective probability distributions for future own-firm sales and measure firm-level uncertainty with their mean absolute deviations. Analogously, we...
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as additional Tier 1 and their step-up feature reduced the probability that the bank skipped the call and kept the bond …
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is most needed. We examine bond correlation using a broad sample of US corporate bonds. We find bond correlation to be … higher during the financial crisis in 2008. Increased bond correlation results from higher correlation between corporate bond … risk factors. Risk factor correlation increases when investor sentiment worsens. This suggests that corporate bond …
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support the theory of strategic growth option in which firms under competition follow preemptive strategy when they face high …
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We study the effects of uncertainty on corporate leverage adjustments with respect to investment spikes and find that overlevered and underlevered firms behave very differently in response to the combination of uncertainty and investment spikes. Overlevered firms facing high uncertainty converge...
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We provide evidence that growth options play an important role in determining the negative relation between corporate investment and idiosyncratic risk in the absence of agency problem. A simple real options model predicts that the negative relation between corporate investment and idiosyncratic...
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Many economic variables of interest exhibit a tendency to revert to predictable long-run levels. However, mean reverting processes are rarely used in investment models in the literature. In most models, geometric Brownian motion processes are used for tractability. In this paper, a firm's entry...
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