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Financial theory creates a puzzle. Some authors argue that high-risk entrepreneurs choose debt contracts instead of equity contracts since risky but high returns are of relatively more value for a loan-financed firm. On the contrary, authors who focus explicitly on start-up finance predict that...
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This paper investigates the link between the optimal level of non-financial firms' liquid assets and industry-level uncertainty. We develop a structural model of a firm's value maximization problem that predicts that as industry-level uncertainty increases the firm will increase its optimal...
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Financial theory creates a puzzle. Some authors argue that high-risk entrepreneurs choose debt contracts instead of equity contracts since risky but high returns are of relatively more value for a loan-financed firm. On the contrary, authors who focus explicitly on start-up finance predict that...
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Die Rekordzahlen an Unternehmensinsolvenzen, die schlechte Ertragslage der deutschen Kreditinstitute in den vergangenen Jahren und der von Basel II ausgehende Druck zur Verwendung von realitätsnahen Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeiten haben es überdeutlich gemacht: Der Bedarf an leistungsfähigen...
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Frauen gründen im Vergleich zu Männern seltener Unternehmen, ihre Gründungen fallen kleiner aus und sie wählen eine andere Finanzierungsstruktur. Es existieren jedoch nur wenige Informationen über die Hintergründe dieser Unterschiede. Insbesondere für Europa gibt es kaum gesicherte...
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SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2007-035 Estimating Probabilities of Default With Support Vector Machines Wolfgang Härdle* Rouslan Moro** Dorothea Schäfer*** * Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany ** Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & DIW Berlin, Germany *** DIW...
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Studies of peer-to-peer lending in the USA find that female borrowers have better chances of getting funds than males. Is differential treatment of borrowers of different sexes a common feature of peer-to-peer lendingmarkets or is it subject to specific businessmodels, ways of fixing loan...
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