Conflicts of interest between insiders (e.g, controlling shareholders) and outsiders (e.g., minority shareholders) are central to the analysis of modern corporation. In an integrated continuous-time contingent claims framework with imperfect corporate governance, we examine a controlling shareholder’s optimal choice of capital structure, ownership concentration, private benefit diversion, consu...

Firms that are located within industry clusters tend to make more acquisitions than their counterparts in the same industry that are not located within a cluster. As we show, if this increased tendency to acquire other firms arises because locating close to other industry participants facilitates acquisitions (e.g., by facilitating the acquisition of information), then firms located within clus...

The development of the financial system is shown, both historically and in contemporary data, to be adversely affected by inequality in the distribution of land. To accommodate these empirical findings, a theory is developed that highlights the incentives of landowners to oppose competition in the financial sector. The theory provides an explanation for the co-incident development of the financ...

This paper shows that the effects of financial liberalization on the credit market of a small and capital constrained economy depend on the market structure of domestic banks prior to liberalization. Specifically, under perfect competition in the domestic credit market prior to liberalization, liberalization leads to lower domestic interest rates, in turn leading to increased credit penetration...

0378-4266/$ see front matter 2010 Published by doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2010.10.017 ⇑ Corresponding author at: School of Business an Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, College G +353 1 8961522; fax: +353 1 6799503. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (B.M. Lucey), qzha This paper investigates the impact of country-level financial integration on corporate financing choices in emerging econom...

The immeasurable potential productivity and high-growth characters contained in Internet Economy attract financial industry to develop internet financial service promptly, which will be mainstream tendency in this century. It has changed the function of traditional financial company and the structure of financial organization. Electronic money has also made the central bank loss the money suppl...

We estimate firms’ cash flow sensitivity of cash to empirically test how the financial system’s structure and activity level influence their financial constraints. For this purpose we merge Almeida et al. (2004), a path-breaking design for evaluating a firm’s financial constraints, with Levine (2002), who paved the way for comparative analysis of financial systems around the world. We conjectur...

This study considers the effects of the financial institutions’ local topology structure in the financial network on their systemic risk contribution using data from the Chinese stock market. We first measure the systemic risk contribution with the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CoVaR) which is estimated by applying dynamic conditional correlation multivariate GARCH model (DCC-MVGARCH). Financial n...

Issues related to structures of goods and information are frequently discussed in the logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM) literature. But, only few contributions are exploring the financial structures associated with supply chains. This paper presents a framework to identify the appropriate financing source used for supply chain. It is extensively noticed that although various financing...