We analyze the nature of financial contracting when an entrepreneur can choose the specificity of investments and financial contracts are incomplete. Investing in projectspecific assets increases productivity but decreases liquidation value. This creates a strategic incentive to specialize assets to decrease the bargaining power of the financier when debt financing is used. By contrast, equity ...

This paper explores the relationship between age distribution and asset returns impled by an overlapping-generations asset pricing model. The model predicts that as more individuals reach the age when the increment to their wealth reaches its maximum, asset returns fall. Cross-sectional evidence from the Survey of Financial Characteristics of Consumers and the Surveys of Consumer Finances indic...

This paper presents an analysis of the concept of stranded assets in the context of shipping. It presents the findings of a series of semi-structured interviews with the industry’s leading debt and equity financiers as well as a variety of financial intermediaries on the topics of energy efficiency, efficiency retrofits and stranded assets. The results show differentiation amongst financial act...

The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the effect of Intellectual Capital (IC) and its components on financial performance of Iranian banks accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). The financial performances were measured by return on equity (ROE), return on assets (ROA), assets turnover (ATO), and book to market ratio (MB). This research covers 14 banks listed in TSE over the peri...

In the last decade, high profile financial frauds committed by large companies in both developed and developing countries were discovered and reported. This study compares the performance of five popular statistical and machine learning models in detecting financial statement fraud. The research objects are companies which experienced both fraudulent and non-fraudulent financial statements betw...

Given the advent and spread of carbon assets, as well as the rapid development of financial markets and transactions related with them, this paper intends to achieve the objective of categorizing these phenomena and describing their main characteristics, in such a way that it can be used as a reference by those professionals and scholars who are interested in the fighting climate change through...

While the comparative statics of asset demand have been studied extensively, surprisingly little work has been done on the behavior of equilibrium asset prices and returns in response to changes in the supplies of securities. This is despite considerable interest in the equity premium and interest rate puzzles. In this paper, we seek to fill this void for the classic case of a representative ag...

This study examines the relationship between product differentiation and financial leverage. It argues that product differentiation is associated with investments in firm-specific assets that have lower liquidation value than general assets. Debt investors need to charge a higher interest rate to cover the risk of default, making the firm resort to equity financing and resulting in low financia...