We investigate information transfer effects of operational loss announcements to the announcing firm's blockholder. Based on an event study, we find that the firm-blockholder link tends to be weak for U.S. financial sector blockholders, with significant negative spillover effects occurring...

We develop an equilibrium model for residential housing transactions in an economy with houses that differ in their quality and households that differ in their planned holding horizon. We show that, in equilibrium, clientele effect persists, with long-horizon buyers overwhelmingly choosing...

This paper will reintroduce, explore and expand on the financing arrangement known as a Participation Mortgage. First, this paper will cover the features, history and policy purposes behind the mortgage. Second, the paper will focus on legal mechanics and drafting considerations of Participation...

This paper studies the default anomaly that has been documented in the literature. We show that after controlling for the default-risk premium the default anomaly disappears. In contrast, controlling for credit spreads does not fully eliminate the anomaly. We also relate our results to the IVOL...

This paper provides an alternative approach to Duffie and Lando (2001) for obtaining a reduced form credit risk model from a structural model. Duffie and Lando obtain a reduced form model by constructing an economy where the market sees the manager's information set plus noise. The noise makes...

The capital structure irrelevance argument of Modigliani and Miller (1958) implies that the use of debt or leases should have no impact on firm values. This classical argument leaves out several important considerations crucial for the result, in particular, counterparty credit risk. We...