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The financial crisis has revealed fatal institutional and structural deficits at the finance market. Politics has reacted to the financial crisis with a sea of legal bills and regulations. But all regulating efforts are merely system-imminent reparation measures and do not solve the core...
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Never has the issue of sovereign credit ratings attracted such an interest by policy and opinion makers, bankers and journalists, or even the public opinion, as witnessed in the last couple of years. In spite of being accused of contributing to the instability of financial markets, credit rating...
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We examine the impact of bank loan announcements on stock liquidity. Using a comprehensive loan announcement sample … announcements. The findings suggest these announcements send positive signals about borrowers to the market that increases liquidity … provision, and reduce transaction costs, leading to improved liquidity for borrowers’ stocks. This liquidity improvement is more …
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In recent years a substantial amount of literature in one way or another deals with liquidity. The interest in it grows … measures of liquidity and publish them in the regular reports. But as in literature, there is still no consensus as what … liquidity really means and how it should be measured, or reported, understood or predicted, as the consistent summary of what …
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Although the existing literature of Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) on different categories of stock markets is vast, it …
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This study examines empirically whether there is a safety premium in the design of bond contracts by highlighting a safety attribute of general mortgage bonds in Japan, which can give especially strong protection to bondholders, who would have priority in the event of legal liquidation. The...
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Afghanistan International Bank (AIB) is one the Afghanis commercial banks, its head office in Kabul. The bank has seven branch offices in the major cities of the country. AIB has international shareholders, two Afghan business groups, and one Afghan/American business group. It opened in 2004....
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absolute risk aversion (CARA). As underlying market impact model, we use the continuous-time liquidity model of Almgren and …
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Credit rating agencies play a crucial role in financial markets. There are two competing views regarding their behavior: some argue that they engage in rating inflation, while others suggest that they deflate ratings. This article offers a rationale that reconciles the two opposite arguments. We...
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liquidity model of Almgren (2003). Using a stochastic control approach, we characterize the value function and the optimal … of the position but increasing in the liquidity price impact. …
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