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The Role of Debt and Equity Finance over the Business Cycle
The authors show that debt and equity issuance are procyclical for most listed U.S. firms. -
Linking Real Activity and Financial Markets: The Bonds, Equity, and Money (BEAM) Model
The authors estimate a small monthly macroeconometric model (BEAM, for bonds, equity, and money) of the Canadian economy built around three cointegrating relationships linking financial and real variables over the 1975–2002 period. -
Risk-Cost Frontier and Collateral Valuation in Securities Settlement Systems for Extreme Market Events
The authors examine how the use of extreme value theory yields collateral requirements that are robust to extreme fluctuations in the market price of the asset used as collateral. -
Ownership Concentration and Competition in Banking Markets
Many countries prohibit large shareholdings in their domestic banks.The authors examine whether such a restriction restrains competition in a duopolistic loan market. Blockholders may influence managers' output decisions by choosing capital structure, as in Brander and Lewis (1986).