Part 1 Portfolio networks under certainty: pure portfolio networks generalized portfolio networks formulation of the optimization problem capital budgeting discrete portfolio networks portfolio management foreign exchange management. Part 2 Stochastic portfolio network fundamentals: periodic returns return phasors and portfolio networks the representation of stochastic processes stochastic portfolio networks diversification in stochastic portfolio networks using a market index arbitrage pricing theory the capital risk pricing model.
Asymmetric information and conflicts of interest between equity and debt holders can force a distressed but efficient firm to liquidate and may enable a distressed inefficient firm to continue. In the extreme, if it is costless for an inefficient firm to mimic an efficient firm in a debt restructuring, efficient and inefficient firms are equally likely to continue or liquidate. This article shows that Chapter 11 procedures impose costs on inefficient firms that would otherwise mimic efficient firms. This separation induces voluntary filing for bankruptcy by inefficient firms and consequently enables efficient firms to continue when they would otherwise be liquidated.
Prior work with competitive rational expectations equilibrium models indicates that there should be a positive relation between trading volume and differences in beliefs or information among traders. We show that this result is sensitive to whether and how transaction costs are modeled. In a specialist market with endogenous transaction costs we show that trading volume can be negatively related to the degree of informational asymmetry in the market. Our analysis highlights the dependence of volume on market structure, and our results suggest that the “volume effects” of corporate or macroeconomic events reflect a decrease, rather than an increase, in heterogeneity of beliefs or asymmetry of information.
Charges that geographical redlining is widely practiced by mortgage lenders and is associated with racial discrimination have received much attention. However, empirical research in this area has yet to document a convincing answer to the question of whether redlining even exists. Much of the previous research in this area has suffered from failure to account for variations in risk, and/or failure to adequately control for geographical differences in demand. This study addresses these problems in an effort to determine whether the disparity in the flow of mortgage credit can be explained by differences in risk and demand.
This article derives testable restrictions on equilibrium asset prices when investors have the option to time the realization of their capital gains and losses for tax purposes. The tax‐timing option alters both the magnitude and timing of equity returns relative to those in a tax‐free model. The tax‐induced restrictions are empirically examined, and the tax rates and preference parameters are estimated. While the tax‐free model can be rejected in favor of the tax‐based model as the specified alternative, the tax‐based model is still unable to adequately explain cross‐sectional differences in asset returns.
Part 1 Why firms merge: recent history of M&A waves M&A personae creative financing - the new techniques corporate control and expansion via M taxation, deregulation and antitrust legislation merger waves - a cyclical dynamic approach. Part 2 Checklist review of the literature: a checklist of causes - why firms merge a checklist of effects - post-acquisition outcomes a checklist of success and failure factors.
This study examines stock and bond price reactions to dividend changes. The positive stock market response to dividend increases has several potential explanations, two of the more commonly discussed being information content and wealth redistribution between stockholders and bondholders. The evidence presented supports the wealth redistribution hypothesis but does not rule out the information content hypothesis. Typically we find that the bond price reaction to announcements of large dividend changes is opposite to the stock price reaction. Our results differ from those of Handjinicolaou and Kalay.
A new empirical model for intertemporal capital asset pricing is presented that allows both time-varying risk premia and betas where the latter are identified from the dynamics of the conditional covariance of returns. The model is more successful in explaining the predictable variations in excess returns when the returns on the stock market and corporate bonds are included as risk factors than when the stock market is the single factor. Although changes in the covariance of returns induce variations in the betas, most of the predictable movements in returns are attributed to changes in the risk premia. Copyright 1994 by American Finance Association.(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)