Owing to the agentification of the Government Housing Loan Corporation, Japanese private financial institutions are now developing long-term fixed-rate loans. In order to reduce the risk of yielding mismatches between asset and liability, financial institutions will sell out their loans by securitization instead of holding loans themselves. Mortgage backed security (MBS) is a product of mortgag...

We examine the effects of credit default swaps (CDS), a major type of over-thecounter derivative, on the corporate liquidity management of the reference firms. CDS help firms to access the credit market since the lenders can hedge their credit risk more easily using these contracts. However, CDS-protected creditors can be tougher in debt renegotiations and less willing to support distressed bor...

Cash holding is closely related to corporate earnings management. The difference of management plays an important role in the development companies. data this paper comes from China Stock Market Accounting Research (CSMAR) and uses Python Stata study relationship between cash earning fundamental regression results obtained through fixed effects model show that high holdings enterprises can incr...

This paper investigates how conservative managers make corporate decisions. Motivated by psychology research, we use handwritten signatures (i.e., emotionally restraint disclosure styles) as a proxy for CEO conservatism. We find that firms with CEOs engage more safer investments (capital expenditures), less risky policies (Research & Development expenses and debt financing), hold cash, are like...

The psychological factors of senior executives have an important impact on the firm’s financial policies. In this paper, we investigate association between CEO risk-taking entrepreneurial spirit and firm cash holdings, find that firms with higher less holdings. Further, financing constraints can mitigate negative whereas needs enhances them. Mechanism test illustrates affects holdings through c...

We study two dynamic models of payments systems. The ...rst is a deterministic model with spatial separation where we consider alternative payments systems institutions and their implications for allocation and welfare. A payments system with period-by-period settlement in outside money improves on decentralized exchange using currency by reducing average cash balances and the average holding p...

We study a dynamic model of firm whose shareholders learn about its profitability and, face costs external financing and holding cash. The shareholders' problem involves notoriously challenging singular stochastic control with two-dimensional degenerate diffusion process. solve it by means an explicit construction value function, derive corporate life-cycle two stages: “probation stage” where i...

The deficiencies of the Medicare program are rooted in its defined-benefit structure and in its use of price controls. Medicare should be transformed into a defined cash contribution made to beneficiaries' private plans or to the traditional Medicare program. The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) is essentially such a system and is a good model for Medicare reform. The FEHBP has...