Debt Maturity and the Use of Short-Term Debt

Debt Maturity and the Use of Short-Term Debt
Author: Sophia Chen
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1484397630

The maturity structure of debt can have financial and real consequences. Short-term debt exposes borrowers to rollover risk (where the terms of financing are renegotiated to the detriment of the borrower) and is associated with financial crises. Moreover, debt maturity can have an impact on the ability of firms to undertake long-term productive investments and, as a result, affect economic activity. The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution and determinants of debt maturity and to characterize differences across countries.

Corporate Bonds and Commercial Paper

Corporate Bonds and Commercial Paper
Author: Brian Coyle
Publisher: Global Professional Publishi
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780852974568

From the "Risk Management" series, this is a guide through the terminology and purpose of corporate bonds. The text describes the various markets in which securities can be issued. It also evaluates the factors influencing investment decisions that any investor may need to assess and, from the corporate perspective, how to reach a decision ......

Income Redistribution and the Realignment of American Politics

Income Redistribution and the Realignment of American Politics
Author: Nolan M. McCarty
Publisher: A E I Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

What kinds of considerations have historically had an important influence on congressional voting patterns? This analysis demonstrates that income redistribution implications have had a strong and persistent effect on national policy.

Taxes and Business Strategy

Taxes and Business Strategy
Author: Myron S. Scholes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2015-01-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781292065571

For MBA students and graduates embarking on careers in investment banking, corporate finance, strategy consulting, money management, or venture capital Through integration with traditional MBA topics, Taxes and Business Strategy, Fifth Edition provides a framework for understanding how taxes affect decision-making, asset prices, equilibrium returns, and the financial and operational structure of firms. Teaching and Learning Experience This program presents a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students: *Use a text from an active author team: All 5 authors actively teach the tax and business strategy course and provide students with relevant examples from both classroom and real-world consulting experience. *Teach students the practical uses for business strategy: Students learn important concepts that can be applied to their own lives. *Reinforce learning by using in-depth analysis: Analysis and explanatory material help students understand, think about, and retain information.

Asymmetric Information, Corporate Finance, and Investment

Asymmetric Information, Corporate Finance, and Investment
Author: R. Glenn Hubbard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2009-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226355942

In this volume, specialists from traditionally separate areas in economics and finance investigate issues at the conjunction of their fields. They argue that financial decisions of the firm can affect real economic activity—and this is true for enough firms and consumers to have significant aggregate economic effects. They demonstrate that important differences—asymmetries—in access to information between "borrowers" and "lenders" ("insiders" and "outsiders") in financial transactions affect investment decisions of firms and the organization of financial markets. The original research emphasizes the role of information problems in explaining empirically important links between internal finance and investment, as well as their role in accounting for observed variations in mechanisms for corporate control.

Markets for Corporate Debt Securities

Markets for Corporate Debt Securities
Author: T. Todd Smith
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1995-07-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451848870

This paper surveys markets for corporate debt securities in the major industrial countries and the international markets. The discussion includes a comparison of the sizes of the markets for various products, as well as the key operational, institutional, and legal features of primary and secondary markets. Although there are some signs that debt markets may be emphasized in the future by some countries, it remains true that North American debt markets are the most active and liquid in the world. The international debt markets are, however, growing in importance. The paper also investigates some of the reasons for the underdevelopment of domestic bond markets and the consequences of firms shifting their debt financing needs from banks to securities markets.

Valuation

Valuation
Author: McKinsey & Company Inc.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 964
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119611881

McKinsey & Company's bestselling guide to teaching corporate valuation - the fully updated seventh edition Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, University Edition is filled with the expert guidance from McKinsey & Company that students and professors have come to rely on for over nearly three decades. Now in its seventh edition, this acclaimed volume continues to help financial professionals and students around the world gain a deep understanding of valuation and help their companies create, manage, and maximize economic value for their shareholders. This latest edition has been carefully revised and updated throughout, and includes new insights on topics such as digital, ESG (environmental, social and governance), and long-term investing, as well as fresh case studies. For thirty years, Valuation has remained true to its basic principles and continues to offer a step-by-step approach to teaching valuation fundamentals, including: Analyzing historical performance Forecasting performance Estimating the cost of capital Interpreting the results of a valuation in context Linking a company's valuation multiples to core performance drivers The University Edition contains end-of-chapter review questions to help students master key concepts from the book. Wiley also offers an Online Instructor's Manual with a full suite of learning resources to complement valuation classroom instruction.

Complex Ownership Structures and Corporate Valuations

Complex Ownership Structures and Corporate Valuations
Author: Luc Laeven
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2007-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The bulk of corporate governance theory examines the agency problems that arise from two extreme ownership structures: 100 percent small shareholders or one large, controlling owner combined with small shareholders. In this paper, we question the empirical validity of this dichotomy. In fact, one-third of publicly listed firms in Europe have multiple large owners, and the market value of firms with multiple blockholders differs from firms with a single large owner and from widely-held firms. Moreover, the relationship between corporate valuations and the distribution of cash-flow rights across multiple large owners is consistent with the predictions of recent theoretical models.

Credit Information Quality and Corporate Debt Maturity

Credit Information Quality and Corporate Debt Maturity
Author: Marco Sorge
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2007
Genre: Access to Finance
ISBN:

This paper provides new theoretical and empirical evidence suggesting that the quality of credit information may be a key element in explaining the maturity structure of corporate debt around the world. In markets with poor credit information and hence a high degree of uncertainty about borrower quality, the authors find suboptimal equilibria in which short-term contracts are preferred either as a hedge against uncertainty to limit losses in bad states (in the symmetric information case) or as a screening device to learn about borrower credit quality in the course of a repeated lending relationship (in the asymmetric information case). The results of the model are supported by the econometric analysis of panel data from both industrial and developing economies. The authors find that countries with better quality of credit information (for example, as a result of improvements in credit reporting systems or accounting standards) are characterized by a higher share of long-term debt as a proportion of total corporate debt ceteris paribus. The findings suggest that promoting institutions and policies to improve the quality of credit information is an important prerequisite for increasing access of firms to long-term finance.