The aim of this paper is to analyze the equilibrium default risk in a two-stage duopoly model, where firms decide their financial structure in the first stage of the game and take their output market decisions in the second stage of the game. Using the framework of Brander and Lewis (1986) we...

The information society represents a new stage of human civilization, a new way of life that implies intensive use of information in all domains of human activity and existence, with a great economic and social impact. The information society gives its members large access to information, a new...

A structured leasing is a new and highly flexible transaction that develops synergies between funding policy, risk management of the underlying assets, and tax benefits. It is used in particular transactions involving complex and large-scale assets, such as airplanes, ships, industrial plant and...

Because a borrower often faces switching costs in dealing with individual banks, the financial health of any given bank might affect the borrower's cost of funds. These costs would be particularly large for firms that have close relationships with relatively few banks. The purpose of this paper...

Trade credit is one of the most important sources of short-term external finance for small firms. Previous literature has focused mainly on the substitution of bank loans for trade credit during monetary tightening among many firms, but in this paper we investigate the role of trade credit...

This paper investigates the dynamics of capital structure of Japanese firms since the early 1990s to shed light on how far the reduction of excess leverage has progressed so far in Japan. Our main findings are as follows. First, the trade-off theory provides an appropriate framework to assess...

Bu çalışmada, küresel finansal kriz sonrası süreçte önemi daha net anlaşılan likidite riskinin piyasalarda neden olduğu belirsizliklerden hareketle, finansal kuruluşlarca konuya ilişkin yapılacak kamuya açıklamanın geliştirilmesine dönük bir likidite stres testi yaklaşımı...

Bu çalışma uluslararası kurumsal yatırımcıların 60’dan fazla ülkede yatırım yaptıkları şirketlerin genel kurullara katılma ve vekaleten oy verme oranlarını yatırımcı haklarının korunması, saydamlık ve kamuyu aydınlatma gibi göstergelerle ilişkilendirmektedir....

Bu çalışmada İMKB100, Mali, Sınai ve Hizmet endeksleri için GARCH(p,q),GJRGRCH(p,q) ve EGARCH(p,q) modelleri kullanılarak en uygun GARCH tipi model riske maruz değer yöntemi ile araştırılmıştır. Çalışma bulgularına göre seçilen güven düzeyi model sonuçlarını...

It was evident that credit default swap (CDS) spreads have been highly correlated during the recent financial crisis. Motivated by this evidence, this study attempts to investigate the extent to which CDS markets across regions, maturities and credit ratings have integrated more in crisis. By...