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On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...
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The purpose of the paper is to provide some support to the thesis that insurance may reduce the cost of capital in a company by influencing both the cost of capital components and the need for rising capital. The problem is here perceived from two perspectives the classical concept related to...
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Objective - The aims to identify the significant factors that influence a company's decision to use debt capital.Methodology/Technique - This study uses 5 independent variables namely; firm growth (growth rate in total gross assets), asset tangibility (ratio of net fixed assets to total assets),...
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We model theoretically the optimal capital structure of entrepreneurial firm relying on an endogenous estimation of the return requested by entrepreneurs that compensates for the risk they incur in case of bankruptcy. We estimate the probability according to the Bayesian approach. We also...
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Using a large panel of UK public firms, we examine the relationship between the financial risk hedging and the cost of … is priced in investors’ expectations. While financial risk hedging serves as a vehicle for firms to alleviate cash flows … addition, we hypothesize and test whether the nature of relation between financial risk hedging and cost of equity capital …
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This paper develops a theory of corporate hedging in a financial contracting framework. In an economy with moral hazard … holding equity, hedging mitigates incentive problems related to debt contracts and, thus, lowers the cost of debt and enables … consistent with extant empirical evidence. For example, hedging will be more likely to be used with bank finance than with non …
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The paper investigates the relationship between corporate hedging and product market competition. Using a broad sample …
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This paper show result of empirical analysis application of cost of capital for capital structuring in Croatian firms. Intensity of this applications is highly unrespectable because Croatian firms usually calculated cost of capital in their capital budgeting process. Analysis also show low...
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Standard factor pricing models do not capture well the common time-series or cross-sectional variation in average returns of financial stocks. We propose a five-factor asset pricing model that complements the standard Fama and French (1993) three-factor model with a financial sector ROE factor...
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