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the international allocation of economic activity. Private assets’ liquidity properties - their usefulness as collateral … entry, production, aggregate productivity, and total market capitalization. In a closed economy, the liquidity market …, cross-country differences in financial development|as measured by the degree of liquidity of a country’s assets - generate …
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This paper proposes a theoretical model that incorporates corporate governance into the basic CAPM, where corporate governance affects the disutility of managerial effort and the possibility of managers to divert company resources. It shows that corporate governance affects firms’ stock...
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Does higher office always lead to more favoritism? We argue that firms may lose their benefit from a connected politicians ascent to higher office, if it entails stricter scrutiny that may reduce favoritism. Around close Congress elections, we find RDD-based evidence of this adverse effect that...
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This paper considers the implications of asymmetric information in capital markets for entrepreneurial entry and tax policy. In many countries, governments subsidize the creation of new firms. One possible justification for these subsidies is that capital markets for the financing of new firms...
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SCF program pools liquidity from suppliers and meanwhile provides immediate payment to suppliers with pressing liquidity … with negative profitability who, however, contribute to the liquidity pool. Inserting the model to an otherwise standard … monetary framework, we show that with higher nominal interest rates, the SCF program emphasizes the liquidity contribution more …
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We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has … characterised by positive trends in liquidity, there is no persuasive time-series and cross-sectional evidence for a negative link … between anomalies in market returns and liquidity. Thus, this proxy of arbitrage activity does not appear to be a key factor …
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Cash holdings at the onset of a financial crisis are a key determinant of investment by SMEs not only during the crisis but also during the recovery period. Cash-rich SMEs could maintain their capital stock during the global financial crisis, while cash-poor rivals reduced theirs. This gave...
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The frequency with which firms adjust output prices helps explain persistent differences in capital structure across firms. Unconditionally, the most exible-price firms have a 19% higher long-term leverage ratio than the most sticky-price firms, controlling for known determinants of capital...
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booms? We present a model of persistent aggregate demand shortage based on strong liquidity preferences of households, in … which we incorporate financial imperfections to study the interactions between debt, liquidity and asset prices. We show …
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Insolvency systems play a crucial role in protection of creditor rights, yet micro-level empirical evidence on the functioning of insolvency regimes worldwide is sparse. We investigate whether creditors' recovery of outstanding claims, a measure of ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime,...
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