We determine optimal security design and retention of asset-backed securities by a privately informed issuer with positive NPV uses for immediate cash. In canonical models, investors revert to prior beliefs if issuers pool at zero-retentions (originate-to-distribute), and separating equilibria...

Credit rationing is a classical phenomenon studied for a long period but the last financial crisis put it in the news. SMEs are particularly affected by this phenomenon and may be the main victims of the financial crisis and economic situation. This paper tries to estimate the scale of credit...

In the spirit of Merton (1987) we find that targeted communication by firms raises investor attention. Continental European firms using English-language commercial press wires to disseminate corporate press releases exhibit less drift and more trading volume after their earnings announcements...

The research shows that banking relationships are important to lending. However, few studies focus on the banking relationships in syndicated loans, although these loans have became a major source of financing. The last financial crisis clearly shows the impacts of credit rationing and...

Tras la intensa crisis económica de los últimos años, la economía española comienza a dar signos de recuperación, mostrando una senda positiva de crecimiento. Sin embargo, todavía quedan debilidades y amenazas que hay que afrontar, entre las que destaca el elevado nivel de deuda de las...

Advance pricing agreements (APAs) determine transfer prices for intra-fi?rm transactions in advance. This paper interprets these contracts as a means to overcome a hold-up problem that occurs because governments cannot commit to non-excessive future tax rates. In addition, with private...

This paper examines the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the market reaction and underwriting fees of two methods of choice for underwriting seasoned equity offerings: Bought deals and firm commitment, by Canadian firms cross-listed on major U.S. exchanges. After controlling for offer and...

The seminal Campbell et al. (2001) paper showing that idiosyncratic risk has increased considerably in recent years has spawned a large number of articles to explain the phenomenon. In this paper, we propose growing earnings noncommonality as a possible source of the increasing idiosyncratic...