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We examine the impact of bank supervision on the financing obstacles faced by almost 5,000 corporations across 49 countries. We find that firms in countries with strong official supervisory agencies that directly monitor banks tend to face greater financing obstacles. Moreover, powerful official...
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What difference does it make, and for whom, whether the nonperforming debts of emerging market borrowers are restructured? This paper begins by positing a set of counterfactual conditions under which restructuring would not matter, and then shows how several ways in which the actual world of...
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Is corporate leverage excessive? Is the tax code distorting corporate capital structure decisions in a way that increases the possibility of an economic crisis owing to "financial instability"? <bR><bR>Answering these kinds of questions first requires some precision in terminology. In this paper, we...
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This paper attempts to provide a framework for analyzing the interaction between real decisions (concerning investment and factor inputs)and financial decisions (concerning debt and new share issues) of a corporation. The model carries a rich menu of tax rates and explicitly incorporates...
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We develop a tractable model of strategic debt renegotiation in which businesses are sequentially interconnected through their liabilities. This financing structure, which we refer to as a debt chain, gives rise to externalities as a lender's willingness to provide concessions to his...
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We study the effect of real asset liquidity on a firm's cost of capital. We find an aggregate asset-liquidity discount … in firms' cost of capital that is strongly counter-cyclical. At the firm-level we find that asset liquidity affects firms … periods of high asset liquidity have lower cost of capital. This effect is stronger when the asset liquidity is provided by …
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market liquidity and shorter debt maturity can exacerbate this externality and cause costly firm bankruptcy at higher … fundamental thresholds. Our model provides implications on liquidity-spillover effects, the flight-to-quality phenomenon, and …
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A liquidity-constrained entrepreneur needs to raise capital to finance a business activity that may cause injuries to …
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