This study provides empirical evidence that trade credit durations implied by product distributors' business volumes (implied credit durations) generate business risk for trade credit providers. The study further demonstrates the existence of "optimal"credit durations that minimize business risk...

I find venture capitalists' (VCs') information production activities help decrease uncertainty about the valuations of new innovations within public equity markets, resulting in price convergence within the cross-section of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) that are backed by different classes of...

Financial Economists have over the years gained many insights from surveys of crop farmers in so far as different aspects of economic activity are concerned. In this study, using micro level survey data obtained from small scale entrepreneurs (farmers), I obtain a strictly concave inverted "U"...

I estimate stochastic frontier models for agricultural productivity using factors that proxy for absolute risk aversion (e.g. loan amounts) and factors that proxy for relative risk aversion (loan pricing or interest rates). Empirical findings show absolute risk aversion ceases to matter for...

We find financing helps make up for deficiencies in farming experience and the absence of crop insurance, such that farmers that have less experience or do not have crop insurance are more likely to adopt productivity enhancing activities. We also find farmers are less likely to spend on output...

Studies of monetary efficiency have focused principally on output, inflation, unemployment and interest rates as sources of monetary efficiency. This study demonstrates trade balances outperform output, inflation, and unemployment rates as sources of monetary efficiency within domestic...

I find evidence that while a political event which has implications for Central Bank Autonomy (CBA event) induces currency depreciation that is accompanied by an increase in currency inventory risk, a political event that can be interpreted as evidence of partisanship (partisanship event)...

Suppose entrepreneurs within venture capital markets accept 'lower than reservation prices' from reputable venture capitalists (VCs). This study shows negative relations between project prices and VCs' reputation ('reputation price discounts') are best explained by presence of an ability measure...

This study develops an empirical algorithm within which the incentive for signaling of private information in course of IPOs is implemented as a conditional, as opposed to an unconditional incentive. Suppose high quality issuers of IPOs signal private information, and suppose presence of cohorts...

his study develops a rational expectations equilibrium model of IPO underpricing within which the distribution of underpricing is explicitly modeled, as opposed to assumed. Contrary to assumptions of prior studies, IPO quality is not inferred from IPO underpricing, is explicitly defined, and is...