In this note, we show that the key driver of the 2019:Q1 increase in the leverage ratio appears to be a change in accounting rules – which requires the inclusion of operating leases as financial liabilities on U.S. corporations' balance sheets – and also provide a methodology for adjusting...

Corporate financing conditions have been rapidly evolving during the COVID-19 outbreak. In this short note, we report a timely measure of financing conditions obtained from machine-reading of earnings conference call transcripts. We find that actions consistent with financial concerns spiked...

We study whether mortgage debt obtained from licensed financial institutions and informal home loans obtained from private lending have differing impacts on stock ownership. Using the China Household Finance Survey data, we show that the two forms of borrowing have opposite effects on stock...

As expiration dates for Nifty stock index futures approach, trading volume in calendar spreads rises at times to over 50% of total daily volume, making this transaction particularly important to execute efficiently for investors rolling over sizable positions into deferred month contracts. In...

We explore how risks propagate through product market input-output networks by constructing degree centrality measures for customer and supplier industries. We find central supplier industries have higher market risks than central customer industries and posit that the provision of trade credit...

In this paper, we develop a new nonparametric approach for estimating the risk-neutral density of asset price and reformulate its estimation into a double-constrained optimization problem. We implement our approach in R and evaluate it using the S&P 500 market option prices from 1996 to 2015. A...

The paper examines whether firms are able to use acquisitions to ease their financial constraints. The results show that acquisitions do ease financing constraints for constrained acquirers. Relative to unconstrained acquires, financially constrained firms are more likely to use undervalued...

Recent literature has shown that liquidity is important in explaining price effects for firms and firm decisions. For example, see Morellec (2001) and Bharath et al (2009). We follow and extend that literature by looking at the liquidity of market based options to forecast REIT capital structure...

The stylized fact that strong economic growth is usually accompanied with strong export growth leads many people to conclude that the export sector is the main driving force behind those episodes. The model in this paper, however, shows that the non-tradable sector may also generate high...