Welche Rolle spielen die Fremdfinanciers im Rahmen der Corporate Governance? Dieser Frage geht Stefan Wendt nach, indem er die Position und Einflussnahme der Fremdfinanciers sowie die Auswirkungen der Ausgestaltung der Corporate Governance auf die Fremdfinanzierungskosten analysiert. In einer...

In February 2003, the SEC officially certified a fourth credit rating agency, Dominion Bond Rating Service (quot;DBRSquot;), for use in bond investment regulations. After DBRS certification, bond yields change in the direction implied by the firm's DBRS rating relative to its ratings from other...

In a frictionless world, investment is perfectly elastic to changes in the discount rate. With financial frictions, investment is less elastic, meaning that a given magnitude of change in investment is associated with a higher magnitude of change in the discount rate. Equivalently, investment is...

I provide new evidence that large and small banks have different external financing costs, which generates cross sectional variation in a deposits market pricing power channel of monetary policy transmission. I do so by exploiting a natural experiment using anti-trust related bank branch...