This paper examines the effect of foreign lending on the domestic lending for US global banks. We show that greater foreign loan growth complements, rather than detracts from, domestic commercial lending. Exploiting a confidential data (FFIEC 009) on international loan exposure of US banks, we...

This paper investigates how interbank credit exposures affect financial stability. Policy makers often see such exposures as undermining stability by exacerbating cascading losses through the financial system. I develop a model that features a trade-off between cascading losses and risk-sharing....

CDS spreads are believed to reflect credit risks but remained stable for major UK banks during the subprime crisis. To explain this gap, we employ probabilities of default (PD) from stock options. These may differ from those obtained from debt instruments but are useful for practical reasons and...

This study extends a test for the presence of binding zoning, originally developed to be applied across many adjacent jurisdictions, so that it can be applied within a single jurisdiction. This study also demonstrates how to carry out this test in the presence of spatially correlated OLS...

This study examines the performance of acquisitions in the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) industry around the acquisition announcement and in the long-run. The results suggest that the acquiring REITs experience statistically significant negative abnormal returns while the target REITs earn...

The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we attempt to investigate the challenges for the constantly changing music industry on the ex- ample of Poland, positing a conclusion that both artists and lables could prot from a precisely determined set of factors in uencing the ultimate sales...

En los ultimos años se ha creado la necesidad de construir indicadores que midan la liquidez, rentabilidad y endeudamiento de las compañías ecuatorianas, con el objetivo de tener un marco de referencia respecto a la toma de decisiones de inversión y financiamiento. La presente investigación...