We study liquidity transfers between banks through the interbank borrowing and asset sale markets when, (i) surplus banks providingliquidity have market power, ii) there are frictions in the lendingmarket due to moral hazard, and, (iii) assets are bank-specific. We show that when the outside...

We study the role of legal investor protection for the efficiency of the market for corporate control. Stronger legal investor protection limits the ease with which an acquirer, once in control, can extract private benefits at the expense of non-controlling investors. This, in turn, increases...

We study the role of legal investor protection for the efficiency of the market for corporate control. Stronger legal investor protection limits the ease with which an acquirer, once in control, can extract private benefits at the expense of non-controlling investors. This, in turn, increases...

Does legal investor protection improve efficiency in the market for corporate control? To address this question, we incorporate financing constraints and legal investor protection into a standard takeover model. In the model, stronger legal investor protection increases a bidder's outside...

A basic model of the choice between entrepreneurship(particularly start-ups) and "intrapreneurship" (business venturing byestablished companies) highlights the key distinction between the two types ofbusiness creation: because internal ventures are funded by firms with relatedprojects, failed...

This paper analyses takeovers of companies owned by atomistic shareholders and by one minority blockholder, all of whom can only decide to tender or retain their shares. As private benefit extraction is inefficient, the post-takeover share value increases with the bidder's shareholdings. In a...

Posttakeover moral hazard by the acquirer and free-riding by the target shareholders lead the former to acquire as few shares as necessary to gain control. As moral hazard is most severe under such low ownership concentration, inefficiencies arise in successful takeovers. Moreover, share supply...

This paper studies the interplay between the operational and financial facets of capacity investment. We consider the capacity choice problem of a firm with limited liquidity and whose access to external capital markets is hampered by moral hazard. The firm must therefore not only calibrate its...

We develop a model of financially constrained arbitrage, and use it to study the dynamics of arbitrage capital, liquidity, and asset prices. Arbitrageurs exploit price discrepancies between assets traded in segmented markets, and in doing so provide liquidity to investors. A collateral...

We consider liquidity transfers between banks through the inter-bank borrowing and asset sale markets when banks providing liquidity may have market power and assets may be bank-specific. We show that when the outside options of liquidity-affected banks are weak, surplus banks may strategically...