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 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...

The control structure over money and real assets is considered in the process of cost innovation. The work here contrasts with the first part of this paper where the emphasis was on the physical aspects of innovation. Here the emphasis is primarily on the money supply aspects of innovation. We...

Új bűvszó terjed a hazai közgazdasági életben: a kockázati tőke. E tőkeközvetítő ágazat Amerikában és Nyugat-Európában a tőkepiac szerves részét alkotja, így ha zai megjelenése és fejlődése a piacgazdaság kiépülésének természetes velejárója. A kockázati tőkét...

Az utóbbi idők ismétlődő pénzügyi válságai ráirányítják a figyelmet a "kockázat vagy bizonytalanság" régi keletű dilemmájára. A közgazdaságtan és a pénzügyi gazdaságtan Knight [1921] nyomán megkülönbözteti az ismert vagy becsült valószínűségekre alapozott...