We introduce a model of the banking sector that formally incorporate a buffer function of capital. Heterogeneous banks choose their portfolio risk, bank size, and capital holdings. Banks voluntarily hold equity when the buffer effect against the risk of default outweighs the cost advantages of...

Der antizyklische Eigenkapitalpuffer, dessen Anforderung Kreditinstitute erfüllen müssen, soll die Widerstandskraft des Bankensystems stärken und dadurch die Kreditversorgung verstetigen. Damit sollen starke Auswirkungen des Finanzzyklus und entsprechende Krisen abgeschwächt werden. Dieses...

This study evaluates the nexus ofenterprise value and trade-credit strategies. Fixed-effects modeling is used for the baseline outcomes, and a difference-in-difference approach is applied as a quasi-natural experiment. The estimates are robust to alternative measures and distant covariates. The...

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have emerged as a popular method to raise capital by startups. During the ICO process, issuers release white papers, which serve as the primary offering documents. Unlike traditional corporate disclosures, ICO disclosures are largely unregulated. We hypothesize that...

A risk factor linked to aggregate equity issuance conditions explains the empirical performance of investment factors based on the asset growth anomaly of Cooper, Gulen, and Schill (2008). This new risk factor, dubbed equity financing risk (EFR) factor, subsumes investment factors in leading...

This article demonstrates that low bank capital carries a negative externality because it amplifies local shock spillovers. We exploit a natural disaster that is transmitted to firms in nondisaster areas via their banks. Firms connected to a strongly disaster-exposed bank with lowest-quartile...

We examine the role of female directors on firm cost of equity in the context of US-listed firms, and further explore the mediating impact of debt financing policy on such association. Using a dataset of 4619 non-financial firm-year observations covering the period of 2008-2019, we find that...

Using a large panel of UK public firms, we examine the relationship between the financial risk hedging and the cost of equity capital. We hypothesize that firms utilizing financial derivative instruments reduce the stock return volatility which is priced in investors’ expectations. While...

As corporate payouts to shareholders reach record high levels and garner the attention of policymakers, understanding their causes and consequences is more important than ever. This chapter surveys the academic literature on repurchases, with a particular emphasis on research undertaken in the...

The paper analyzes the effects of holding firms liable for non-disclosure of material information when raising capital. We develop a model in which a privately-informed entrepreneur can choose to withhold information from prospective investors when issuing and selling stock and the investors can...

During the last thirty years, U.S. bank concentration has been growing over time, as has bank capital ratio, which has been rising and already well above the minimum capital requirement. To explain these findings, I develop a tractable dynamic model with two key elements: financial constrained...

Relative to the explicit role of corporate information disclosure in reducing the cost of equity capital, the role of strategic information disclosure (SID) is still in disorder in the literature. We aim to provide empirical evidence for the relationship between SID and the cost of equity...

Purpose: The nature of each component of executive compensation varies, resulting in variances in executive in- centives and investor pricing. To examine whether there is a differential relation between executive compensation components and cost of equity capital, this study decomposes the...

From 2008 to 2019, this research examines the effect of equity capital on the profitability of 24 Vietnamese commercial banks. The research findings indicate that, when ROAA and ROAE are used to measure the bank's profit, the equity capital ratio (CAP) has a statistically significant positive...

This paper investigates the relationship between corporate governance quality and the cost of equity capital, intended as the discount rate the market applies to a firm’s expected future cash flows to evaluate the current share price. Using data from the Italian listed corporations in 2018,...

The cost of equity for banks equates to the compensation that market participants demand for investing in and holding banks’ equity, and has important implications for the transmission of monetary policy and for financial stability. Notwithstanding its importance, the cost of equity is...

This paper examines the Leverage Ratio and Total Capital Ratio of global versus non-global banks in both the pre- and post-crisis periods. A panel data set of 165 global and non-global financial institutions from 38 countries is used for the period 1999-2015 and a random effects model is...

We test the impact of stock split rule changes on liquidity behavior in Bursa Malaysia during 2004-2020. Using event study methodology, this study examines stock liquidity on and around stock split days through three subperiods of study, including the first (2004-2006), second (2007-2009), and...

This research aims to investigate the influence of bank capital, risk-based capital and bank capital buffers on the behaviour of bank risk-taking by applying GMM on the data of US commercial banks ranges from 2002 to 2018. The findings show that bank capital has a positive influence on total...