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Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

We develop a model of internal governance where the self-serving actions of top management are limited by the potential reaction of subordinates. Internal governance can mitigate agency problems and ensure that firms have substantial value, even with little or no external governance by...

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Liquidity Risk of Corporate Bond Returns : A Conditional Approach

Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

We study the exposure of the US corporate bond returns to liquidity shocks of stocks and Treasury bonds over the period … 1973 - 2007 in a regime - switching model. In one regime, liquidity shocks have mostly insignificant effects on bond prices … default), suggest the existence of time-varying liquidity risk of corporate bond returns conditional on episodes of flight to …

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Cash Holdings and Credit Risk

Acharya, Viral V. - 2011

liquidity may be related positively to the longer-term probability of default. Our empirical analysis confirms these predictions …

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Rollover Risk and Market Freezes

Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

The crisis of 2007-09 has been characterized by a sudden freeze in the market for short-term, secured borrowing. We present a model that can explain a sudden collapse in the amount that can be borrowed against finitely-lived assets with little credit risk. The borrowing in this model takes the...

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How Do Global Banks Scramble for Liquidity? Evidence from the Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Freeze of 2007

Acharya, Viral V. - 2013

In August of 2007, banks faced a freeze in funding liquidity from the asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market. We … investigate how banks scrambled for liquidity in response to this freeze and its implications for corporate borrowing. Commercial …

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Creditor Rights and Corporate Risk-Taking

Acharya, Viral V. - 2010

We analyze the link between creditor rights and firms' investment policies, proposing that stronger creditor rights in bankruptcy reduce corporate risk-taking. In cross-country analysis, we find that stronger creditor rights induce greater propensity of firms to engage in diversifying...

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Are Banks Passive Liquidity Backstops? Deposit Rates and Flows During the 2007-2009 Crisis

Acharya, Viral V. - 2012

Can banks maintain their advantage as liquidity providers when they are heavily exposed to a financial crisis? The … liquidity insurer is not one of the passive recipient, but of an active seeker, of deposits. We find that banks facing a funding … liquidity demand shocks (as measured by their unused commitments, wholesale funding dependence, and limited liquid assets), as …

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Sovereign Debt, Government Myopia, and the Financial Sector

Acharya, Viral V. - 2011

What determines the sustainability of sovereign debt? We develop a model where myopic governments seek popularity but can nevertheless commit credibly to service external debt. They do not default when debt is low because they would lose access to debt markets and be forced to reduce spending;...

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Does the Lack of Financial Stability Impair the Transmission of Monetary Policy?

Acharya, Viral V. - 2019

We investigate the transmission of central bank liquidity to bank deposits and loan spreads in Europe over the period … bank liquidity does not translate into lower loan spreads for high-risk banks for maturities beyond one year, even as it …

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Exorbitant Privilege? Quantitative Easing and the Bond Market Subsidy of Prospective Fallen Angels

Acharya, Viral V.; Banerjee, Ryan; Crosignani, Matteo; … - 2022

We document capital misallocation in the U.S. investment-grade (IG) corporate bond market, driven by quantitative easing (QE). Prospective fallen angels -- risky firms just above the IG rating cutoff -- enjoyed subsidized bond financing since 2009, especially when the scale of QE purchases...

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