This work explores the role of executive compensation in determining the capital structure decisions of a firm. CEOs experience a large personal cost of default that interacts through the risk adjusted probability of default with their compensation contract. Since default happens in a particularly costly state of the world for a CEO whose compensation contract consists primarily of pay for perf...

We investigate bank holding companies’ window dressing of quarter-end financial leverage through short-term borrowings, and the stock market reaction around the public release of information that can be used to infer such window dressing. We find evidence of downward window dressing of repo and federal funds liabilities that appear material for a large fraction of the sample, particularly among...

The statistical leverage scores of a complex matrix A ∈ Cn×d record the degree of alignment between col(A) and the coordinate axes in Cn. These score are used in random sampling algorithms for solving certain numerical linear algebra problems. In this paper we present a max-plus algebraic analogue for statistical leverage scores. We show that max-plus statistical leverage scores can be used to ...

â â â â â â â â â â â  â  abstract â  the foreign exchange market (fx market) accounts for 40% of the total volume of the world’s e-commerce by its own. based on statistics, sometimes up to 90 per cent of the traders lose their total capital in this market just within six months to one year and leave this market. the probability of loss in the fx market can be estimated by probability theory....

In this paper, we investigate LBO in a growing industry where the target company has a growth option. Especially, we focus the bidder’s option to acquire the target company. An important setting is that the optimal timing is determined under the capital constraint. As our main results, we show that a growth option leads to delay in LBO, high leverage and low risk, and that default risk has the ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether and how bundling services may achieve leverage of market power from the telco’s home to a secondary service market (e.g. video broadcasting). Despite digital convergence, in many countries the former telco monopolist remains to hold significant market power in its home market for telecommunication services. Design/methodology/approac...

We develop a model of hedge fund returns, which reflect the contractual relationships between a hedge fund, its investors and its prime brokers. These relationships are modelled as short option positions held by the hedge fund, wherein the “funding option” reflects the short option position with prime brokers and the “redemption option” reflects the short option position with the investors. Giv...

This paper explores the leverage determinants across firms’ sizesbased on the two main theories behind the capital structure, the trade-offand the pecking order theories. A panel data is sued to find therelationship between capital structure and the variables that proxy forbenefits and costs of debt during 1990 to 2006. Our findings show thatboth principles help to explain the capital structure...