Transaction cost economics is an economizing theory of organization, not an economizing theory of strategy. This paper proposes an extension that makes transaction cost economics (TCE) an economizing theory of strategy. In essence, the paper asserts that unbiased weighing of production costs,...

We document the importance of loan covenants to observed hedging outcomes, by studying lending agreements and derivative positions of U.S. oil and gas producers. The emergence of fracking technology was accompanied by sharp increases in capital spending and borrowing. The contracts involved...

Focusing on investments by US money market mutual funds (MMFs) in nonfinancial commercial paper, this study shows that the demand for corporate short-term securities by preferred-habitat investors is positively associated with the use of short-term debt by firms. Consistent results are found...

This paper examines whether debt renegotiation mitigates the agency costs of asset substitution. Inspired by the studies of Mella-Barral and Perraudin (1997) and Leland (1998), we have developed an analytical continuous time model of a firm that has the option to switch to a higher risk activity...

This is a transcript of my remarks as 2016 Visiting Scholar in Corporate and Business Law at Delaware Law Widener University, delivered to the members of the Delaware Judiciary and Bar at the Wilmington Club on September 12, 2016. I introduce the idea of multipreference shareholders whose...

Trade debt will be a permanent and very important source of short-term financing. Different types of return ratios have a decisive and different impact on trade debt. In fact, internal return ratios are able to explain firms' short-term financial behavioural towards an increase (or decrease) on...

In this paper we study a risk-minimizing hedge ratio with futures contracts, where the risk of the hedged portfolio is measured through a spectral risk measure, thus incorporating the degree of agent's risk aversion. We empirically estimate the optimal hedge ratio using a long time series of UK...

Firms commonly engage in a practice known as ‘selective hedging', i.e. adjusting the timing and size of hedging programs based on market views. In this paper I examine if corporate governance arrangements influence the extent of selective hedging using hand-collected data from the oil and gas...

This Article argues that the emergence of algorithmic trading raises a new challenge for the law and policy of insider trading. It shows that securities markets comprise a cohort of algorithmic “structural insiders” that – by virtue of speed and physical proximity to exchanges –...