Using newly available data on hedge fund leverage that specifies the type of leverage employed (e.g. gross or net), we examine the potential for a credit spiral and financial fragility in hedge funds. We find that funds belonging to fund families that are highly levered, have multiple prime...

How risk and uncertainty are perceived depends on experience, luck, skills, and modelling, and, unsurprisingly, they are hard to disentangle. Yet asset allocation – leverage – should depend on accurately assessing quantifiable return and risk and unquantifiable uncertainty. Looking beyond...

Using detailed data of margin investors' leverage ratios and trading activities, we provide novel evidence for the effect of margin-induced trading on the cross-section of stock returns during the recent market turmoil in China. We first document the deleverge-induced sales. Aggregating this...

Leveraged and inverse exchange-traded funds seek daily returns equal to fixed multiples of indexes' returns. Trading costs implied by frequent adjustments of funds' portfolios create a tension between tracking error, reflecting short-term correlation with the index, and excess return, the...

I study the effects of short sale constraints in a rational framework with asymmetric information. I consider the cases of Bernoulli-distributed (à la Glosten and Milgrom) and continuously distributed (à la Kyle) liquidation values, and focus on the latter case.In this case my model is able to...

We study the general-equilibrium effects of the corporate debt tax shield in an endowment economy with a redistributive tax system that taxes firm profits and household income and redistributes tax revenues in an attempt to harmonize households' lifetime consumption opportunities. In general...

We empirically investigate the impact of government debt on corporate financing decisions in an international setting. We document a negative relation between government debt and corporate leverage using data on 40 countries between 1990-2014. This negative relation is stronger for government...

This research aimed to test whether there are differences among companies which have the growth potential and barren of in the case of policy of financing and also to test significance influence of unsystematic risk, size, profitability, and liquidity to non-financial companies financing...

Purpose: The main objective of this study is to analyze the impact of operating leverage and financial leverage on the firm's value based on data of firms listed in Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE).Design/Methodology/Approach: To analyze the impact of leverage on the firm's value, Panel Data from...

We survey 79 private equity (PE) investors with combined assets under management of more than $750 billion about their practices in firm valuation, capital structure, governance, and value creation. Investors rely primarily on internal rates of return and multiples to evaluate investments. Their...