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their liabilities means that these funds are important sources of liquidity demand, often in already unsettled markets. The … concomitant reduction in liquidity supply by dealers raises the question of which intermediaries accommodate mutual funds' sales … demand liquidity, and insurance companies, which hold large amounts of corporate bonds. They often trade in opposite …
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This paper examines the impact of stock liquidity on firm bankruptcy risk. Using the Securities and Exchange Commission … decimalization regulation as a shock to stock liquidity, we establish that enhanced liquidity decreases default risk. Stocks with the … highest default risk experience the largest improvements. We find two mechanisms through which stock liquidity reduces firm …
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We study the association between the stock liquidity of SMEs in the US and their likelihood of bankruptcy, using a … substantial heterogeneity across industries regarding the predictive power of the liquidity measure on the likelihood of … performance tests conclude that adding a liquidity measure variable to the Campbell et al. (2008) model improves its predictive …
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This paper studies how market-wide credit risk affects the liquidity pricing in the bond market. With the emerging wave … increases the effectiveness of price discovery in China's capital market. As liquidity concern starts to play a nontrivial role …
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During the recent crisis, lags in the transmission mechanism of economic shocks, together with monetary and fiscal policy, made it difficult to assess the evolving dynamics of creditworthiness. As such, developments in financial markets became a key guide for investors and policymakers in...
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Assuming benevolent managers, the debt-overhang problem suggests that distressed firms generally refrain from issuing equity. In contrast, agency theory predicts that distressed firm managers have strong self-interests to finance even deteriorating projects through equity issuance. This paper...
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I examine the role of sell-side debt analyst reports in the corporate bond market for financially distressed firms. Debt analysts are not subject to the same conflict-of-interest regulations as equity analysts, and for this reason it is an open question whether the primary function of debt...
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There is a close link between prices of equity options and the probability of default of a firm. We show that in the presence of positive expected equity recovery, the standard methods that assume zero equity recovery at default misestimate the probability of default implicit in option prices....
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Prior evidence on pre-bankruptcy filing informed trading is mixed. The inconclusive findings might result from the sole focus on stock trading. We reassess the presence of pre-filing informed and insider trades by examining the information content of options trading before bankruptcy...
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Using a large panel of firms across the world from 1991-2006, we show that the median foreign firm has lower idiosyncratic risk than a comparable U.S. firm. Country characteristics help explain variation in the level of idiosyncratic risk, but less so than firm characteristics. Idiosyncratic...
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