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We study the capital market implications of mandatory auditor choice. This regulatory intervention provides us with an instrument that can be used to examine the role of asymmetric information in the market for small business finance. We propose, in particular, a new exogenous measure of...
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We study the effects of investor protection on the availability of external finance, entrepreneurship, and creation of new firms in an equilibrium search model of private capital markets. In addition to search frictions, we examine contract frictions, specifically interim and ex post moral...
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While the negative qualitative relation between the cost of debt capital and firm age is rather well established in the financial economics literature, there are few, if any, quantitative estimates available of the magnitude of the age effect. This study analyses this effect by utilizing a large...
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