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On the Real Effects of Bank Bailouts: Micro-Evidence from Japan

Giannetti, Mariassunta; Simonov, Andrei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Exploiting the Japanese banking crisis as a laboratory, we provide firm-level evidence on the real effects of bank … investors have similar effects. Moreover, bank mergers engineered to enhance bank stability appear to hurt the borrowers of the …

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Gambling for resurrection in Iceland: the rise and fall of the banks

Baldursson, Fridrik Mar; Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

lending to the banks’ owners, although they strongly maintained otherwise in autumn 2007. Neither the FSA nor the Central Bank …

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The "Greatest" Carry Trade Ever? Understanding Eurozone Bank Risks

Acharya, Viral V; Steffen, Sascha - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

the cross-section of banks; and, the negative German loading reflects funding risk (flight away from bank funding to … various proxies for bank short-term debt. Large banks and banks with low Tier 1 ratios and high risk-weighted assets had …” – greater exposure of domestic banks to its sovereign’s bonds – which is partly explained by the European Central Bank funding …

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Stories of the Twentieth Century for the Twenty-First

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Obstfeld, Maurice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

A key precursor of twentieth-century financial crises in emerging and advanced economies alike was the rapid buildup of leverage. Those emerging economies that avoided leverage booms during the 2000s also were most likely to avoid the worst effects of the twenty-first century’s first global...

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State Capitalism vs. Private Enterprise

Chen, Donghua; Jiang, Dequan; Ljungqvist, Alexander P.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study the efficiency of internal capital markets at state-controlled and privately owned business groups in China. Using highly granular data on within-group capital flows, we document stark differences: while private groups allocate more capital to units with better investment opportunities,...

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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?

Estrin, Saul; Tian, Lihui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China’s newly privatized large firms and the stock market. In this paper, we analyse shareholders as agents that can both harm and benefit companies. We examine the ownership structure of 826 listed...

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Multiple Lenders and Corporate Distress: Evidence on Debt Restructuring

Brunner, Antje; Krahnen, Jan Pieter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

In the recent theoretical literature on lending risk, the common pool problem in multi-bank relationships has been … credit-fie information on distressed lending relationships in Germany. In particular, it includes information on bank pools … bank pools increases the probability of workout success and that coordination costs are positively related to pool size. We …

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M&As Performance in the European Financial Industry

Campa, José Manuel; Hernando, Ignacio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper looks at the performance record of M&As that took place in the European Union financial industry in the period 1998-2002. First, the paper reports evidence on shareholder returns from the merger. Merger announcements implied positive excess returns to the shareholders of the target...

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On the Non-Exclusivity of Loan Contracts: An Empirical Investigation

Degryse, Hans; Ioannidou, Vasso; von Schedvin, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Credit contracts are non-exclusive. A string of theoretical papers shows that nonexclusivity generates important negative contractual externalities. Employing a unique dataset, we identify how the contractual externality stemming from the non-exclusivity of credit contracts affects credit...

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Bank Competition and Enterprise restructuring in Transition Economies

Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

We investigate how bank competition affects the efficiency of credit allocation, using a model of spatial competition … loans compared to the social optimum. Finally, we analyse how bank competition affects the firms' restructuring effort. We …

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