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Traditional theories of capital structure imply a consistent relationship between firm profitability and firm leverage. Empirical data, however, suggest that the relationship is not monotonic. In the cross-section of firms, non-profitable firms become significantly more leveraged as losses...
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We develop and estimate a dynamic model of risk-shifting over the business cycle. First, equity holders with Epstein …-Zin preferences increase their taking of idiosyncratic risk substantially more than the standard model in repeated games, because they … "synchronized'' idiosyncratic risk. Third, combined with high market risk premium in the bad states, the clustered risk …
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debt maturity. If “observable” corporate debt maturity and ex ante “unobservable” corporate risk-taking is highly …
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Purpose – This study develops a non-traditional measure of risk, an Exposure-Based Volatility, for the non … historical standard deviation. It is further shown that through its application the particular measure of downside risk leads to … a useful contribution in the corporate risk management process.Research limitations/implications – This study …
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The theory of cost of capital (long-term) assets [Sharpe, 1964, Lintner, 1965, Mossin, 1966] based on G. Markovits … is substantially uniform concerning risks of the assets addressing on it. However this theory doesn't assume possibility … changes, the basic theory isn't capable in such conditions to give an objective assessment of assets. At the same time …
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such policies. A typical industry practice consists in using fund mapping regressions to represent basis risk stemming from …
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The empirical tests of traditional structural models of credit risk tend to indicate that such models have been …-factor stochastic volatility specification within the structural model of credit risk. One of the factors determines the correlation …
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Most firms face some form of competition in product markets. The degree of competition a firm faces feeds back into its cash flows and affects the values of the securities it issues. Through its effects on stock prices, product market competition affects the prices of options on equity and...
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Dynamic economic models make predictions about impulse responses that characterize how macroeconomic processes respond to alternative shocks over different horizons. From the perspective of asset pricing, impulse responses quantify the exposure of macroeconomic processes and other cash flows to...
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