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We study how the Eurosystem Collateral Framework for corporate bonds helps the European Central Bank (ECB) fulfill its policy mandate. Using the ECBs eligibility list, we identify the first inclusion date of both bonds and issuers. We find that due to the increased supply and demand for...
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Firms with greater financial flexibility should be better able to fund a revenue shortfall resulting from the COVID-19 shock and benefit less from policy responses. We find that firms with high financial flexibility within an industry experience a stock price drop lower by 26% or 9.7 percentage...
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This paper investigates the impact of firm leverage on its investment activities. Especially, the research is conducted in the context of the Vietnamese emerging market, an incomplete market in South East Asia with the existence of inefficient market problems such as information asymmetry and...
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This paper examines how deviation from firms' target leverage influences their decisions on undertaking foreign acquisitions. Using a sample of 5,746 completed bids by UK acquirers from 1987 to 2012, we observe that over-deviated firms are more likely to acquire foreign targets. Consistent with...
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We investigate the informational content of credit default swap (CDS) spreads for future volatility of (firm) assets and equity. In the cross-section, CDS spreads are significantly more informative about future asset than equity volatility. The informational content of historical and option...
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This paper investigates the relationship between the borrowing firm's cross-ownership and its choice between bank loans and public bonds when raising new debt capital. We find that cross-ownership significantly reduces the firm's use of bank loans when making debt issuance decisions. Evidence...
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This study explores the relationship between the debt maturity structure and the stock price crash risk for nonfinancial firms on the Borsa Istanbul from 2009 to 2019. Family ownership is added to the analyses to provide a new perspective on the literature examining the link between stock price...
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I examine the effects of transparency in the secondary market on the capital structure of firms. To identify it, I rely on a quasi-experiment in which the 2002 regulations of TRACE mandated the public dissemination of post-trade pricing and volume information for corporate bonds. Dissemination...
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We analyze the presence of activist investors (hedge funds and private equity funds) and their impact on top management turnover in Germany. We contrast two hypotheses. The monitoring hypothesis is based on agency theory. Under this hypothesis, we expect active investors to increase top...
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This paper examines the relationship between performance and top executive turnovers using a sample of 81 turnovers and matching companies listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. We find that poor market performance increases the probability of management replacements and that forced layoffs...
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