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By means of an international sample of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) involving firms with outstanding Eurobonds from the US, Europe, and other countries around the world, we show that bond performance around M&A announcements is sensitive to cross-country differences in creditor...
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Corporate governance is concerned with the resolution of collective action problems among dispersed investors and the reconciliation of conflicts of interest between various corporate claimholders. In this survey we review the theoretical and empirical research on the main mechanisms of...
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This paper examines the impact of stock liquidity on firm bankruptcy risk. Using the Securities and Exchange Commission … decimalization regulation as a shock to stock liquidity, we establish that enhanced liquidity decreases default risk. Stocks with the … highest default risk experience the largest improvements. We find two mechanisms through which stock liquidity reduces firm …
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Using 2,956 CEO turnovers from 1993 to 2009, I find that default probability is useful in understanding and predicting forced CEO turnovers for non-distressed firms, controlling for conventional performance measures, such as stock performance. The high predictive power is not explained by...
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We study the impact on industry liquidity of delistings resulting from leveraged buyout activity. Using data on U ….S. LBOs during the 1985-2008 period, we uncover evidence of negative liquidity externalities. We find that the liquidity of … liquidity at the industry level …
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ownership will be the dominant form of return to equity. If markets expect a contest for control, these returns will show up in …
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equilibrium liquidity provision from equity and bond dealers and non-monotonic stock-bond price comovement. We find supportive …
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give up such large stakes in voting power. I find 70% of unifying firms specifically state "increase liquidity" as a … liquidity …
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In a typical "phoenix syndrome" scenario, a small business entrepreneur who controls the financially distressed Company A registers Company B, to which the assets of Company A are transferred in what appears to be fraudulent conveyance. Company B serves as a vehicle through which the business is...
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We study the influence of financial institutions' network on private debt renegotiation outside of distress. Lenders with a network-central position have access to superior private information, are more experienced and trustworthy and have a greater reputational capital. Using a large sample of...
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