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A Theory of the Boundaries of Banks With Implications for Financial Integration and Regulation

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a theory of the “boundary of the firm” that is tailored to banks, recognizing the relevance of deposit financing and interbank lending as a substitute for integration. It is based on a single inefficiency that has been at the core of banking theory: risk‐shifting incentives in the interest of bank shareholders.
Falko Fecht, Roman Inderst, Sebastian Pfeil   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ambiguity Aversion, Portfolio Choice, and Life Expectancy

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how wealth and aging affect portfolio choices in a life‐cycle model with ambiguity aversion. Ambiguity aversion implies wealthier and older agents are endogenously more optimistic about risky asset returns, relative to poorer/younger agents. As life expectancy grows, old agents become even more optimistic, while young agents
Alistair Macaulay, Chenchuan Shi
wiley   +1 more source

When the Fed Sneezes, What Stock Market Catches the Cold?

International Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper identifies three indicators of monetary policy surprises—unexpected changes in the federal funds rate, forward guidance and large‐scale asset purchases—and examines their effects on international stock prices using an intraday event study approach.
Carlo Rosa
wiley   +1 more source

Household portfolio allocation and stock market beliefs: Evidence from Japanese households

Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyze data from the Keio Household Panel Survey (KHPS) to investigate how individuals' beliefs about financial markets influence current and planned asset holdings. Our results reveal statistically and economically significant relations between specific beliefs and both present asset allocations and accumulation.
Raslan Alzuabi, Daniel Gray
wiley   +1 more source

ESG, Bank Debt and Firm Value: A Signaling Perspective

Journal of International Financial Management &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper delves into the influence of bank debt in shaping the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and a firm's value. As a result of the superior informational and monitoring functions of bank borrowers in their lending relationships, we argue that a firm's degree of bank debt might signal the ...
Gabriel De la Fuente, Pilar Velasco
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional Investor Attention

The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using data on Internet news reading, we measure fund‐level attention to both aggregate and firm‐specific news and relate it to fund portfolio allocation decisions. In the time series, we find that funds shift attention toward macroeconomic news during periods of high aggregate volatility.
ALAN KWAN, YUKUN LIU, BEN MATTHIES
wiley   +1 more source

Monetary Policy and Wealth Effects: The Role of Risk and Heterogeneity

The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the role of asset revaluation in the monetary transmission mechanism. We build an analytical heterogeneous‐agents model with two main ingredients: (i) rare disasters and (ii) heterogeneous beliefs. The model captures time‐varying risk premia and precautionary savings in a setting that nests the textbook New Keynesian model.
NICOLAS CARAMP, DEJANIR H. SILVA
wiley   +1 more source

The Equity Premium: It's Still a Puzzle [PDF]

, 1995
The paper examines the literature that attempts to resolve the equity premium and riskfree rate puzzles. It demonstrates that the puzzles will confront any model of asset prices that relies on three crucial assumptions: preferences have a particular parametric form, asset markets are complete, and asset trade is frictionless. A survey of the literature
openaire   +3 more sources

Mergers and Attributions: An Examination of M&A Terminations in 1996–2022

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Firms often make attributions regarding their actions in managing relationships with shareholders and investors. While research utilizing attribution theory has found that firms tend to attribute negative outcomes to external factors and positive outcomes to internal ones, this behaviour can have both positive and negative consequences ...
Zhe (Adele) Xing, Xiwei Yi
wiley   +1 more source

Do Just Energy Transition Partnerships collide or converge with substantive investment law standards? Case studies from Indonesia and Vietnam

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) are novel financing mechanisms that encourage coal‐dependent emerging economies to transition away from fossil fuels. JETPs aim to facilitate coal phaseout and transitions to renewable energy through private and public financing.
Francine Hug
wiley   +1 more source