Vesting of equity payments to an entrepreneur, which is time contingent compensation, is ubiquitous in venture capital contracts and has been shown empirically to be of economic importance. We show that vesting equity to an entrepreneur over a longer period of time, late vesting, acts as a...

Using a unique dataset of negotiated block trades of listed companies in China, we quantify the trade-off between liquidity and control of block shares. While the size of the block increases the probability of gaining control, it also imposes liquidity constraints on the owner. The joint effects...

In this article, we consider the impact of asymmetric information between managers and investors on the optimal capital structure decision. This is done within a continuous-time framework, where the relevant state variable is given by the EBIT value of the firm; an approach taken by Goldstein et...

Substantial attention has been paid in recent years to the risk of maturity mismatch in emerging markets. Although this risk is microeconomic in nature, the evidence advanced thus far has taken the form of macro correlations. We evaluate this mechanism empirically at the micro level by using a...

This paper analyses the capital structure decision of small non-listed bank-financed firms. These firms are rarely studied in capital structure contexts and differ from large listed firms in terms of agency and asymmetric information problems and funding sources. It is argued that the solution...

This paper investigates the question of whether bond ratings serve as a basis for market prices of bonds or whether investors use their own research and view the ratings only as rough guidelines. Unlike previous work, which focused on rating changes, this paper uses a new data base to consider...

In the Indian market, majority of the subsequent equity issues are sold through rights offerings (ROs) and ROs are associated with positive market reaction. We show that this positive reaction is mainly concentrated among growth firms having better investment opportunity. In the long-run,...

This paper documents the substantial private benefits of listing for insiders of issuing companies. It shows that insiders may not only be complacent about IPO underpricing, but that they may even profit from it. The paper uses a unique data set of prospectuses for 290 issuing companies at the...

The many legal forms for business organizations that first appeared in the U.S. during the last thirty years - the Limited Liability Company (LLC), the Limited Liability Partnership (LLP), the Limited Liability Limited Partnership (LLLP), and the statutory Business Trust - all combine the...

We seek economic interpretations for two well-known empirical regularities. First, it is well known that more profitable firms tend to have lower leverage ratios, a pattern driven by the preference on internal funds by these profitable firms. Some recent theoretical development has used...