Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 686
Cover Image
Why do borrowers pledge collateral? New empirical evidence on the role of asymmetric information
Berger, Allen N.; Espinosa-Vega, Marco A.; Frame, W. Scott - 2007
An important theoretical literature motivates collateral as a mechanism that mitigates adverse selection, credit rationing, and other inefficiencies that arise when borrowers hold ex ante private information. There is no clear empirical evidence regarding the central implication of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292292
Cover Image
The impact of downward rating momentum on credit portfolio risk
Güttler, André; Raupach, Peter - 2008
Rating downgrades are known to make subsequent downgrades more likely. We analyze the impact of this ?downward momentum? on credit portfolio risk. Using S&P ratings from 1996 to 2005, we estimate a transition matrix that is insensitive to and a second matrix that is sensitive to previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295953
Cover Image
Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance: an empirical analysis for Germany
Januszewski, Silke I.; Köke, Jens; Winter, Joachim K. - 1999
Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in … Germany?s bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297660
Cover Image
Returns to Private Equity: Idiosyncratic Risk Does Matter!
Müller, Elisabeth - 2007
Owners of private companies often invest a substantial share of their net worth in one company, which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. For US companies we investigate whether owners require compensation for lack of diversification in the form of higher returns to equity. Exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298006
Cover Image
The Determinants of Capital Structure: Some Evidence from Banks
Heider, Florian; Gropp, Reint E. - 2008
This paper documents that standard cross-sectional determinants of firm leverage also apply to the capital structure of large banks in the United States and Europe. We find a remarkable consistency in sign, significance and economic magnitude. Like non-financial firms, banks appear to have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298024
Cover Image
Banking globalization, monetary transmission and the lending channel
Cetorelli, Nicola; Goldberg, Linda S. - 2008
The globalization of banking in the United States is influencing the monetary transmission mechanism both domestically and in foreign markets. Using quarterly information from all U.S. banks filing call reports between 1980 and 2005, we find evidence for the lending channel for monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298734
Cover Image
Returns to private equity: idiosyncratic risk does matter!
Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
Owners of private companies often invest a substantial share of their net worth in one company, which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. For US companies we investigate whether owners require compensation for lack of diversification in the form of higher returns to equity. Exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299466
Cover Image
Returns to private equity: idiosyncratic risk does matter!
Müller, Elisabeth - 2009
Owners of private companies often invest a substantial share of their net worth in one company, which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. For US companies we investigate whether owners require compensation for lack of diversification in the form of higher returns to equity. Exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299837
Cover Image
The rat race of capital structure research for REITs and REOCs: Two spotlights on leverage
Hohenstatt, Ralf; Steininger, Bertram - 2011
This paper presents a dynamic multi-equation model based on a balance sheet identity, where technical aspects of capital structure are highlighted through separately observing debt and equity and their relationship to investment. Additionally, leverage dynamics are interpreted in their role for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307836
Cover Image
Rhineland exit?
Bovenberg, Lans; Teulings, Coen N. - 2007
We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between stakeholders can easily evolve in a permanent struggle between the stakeholders about the ultimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325305