Debt Maturity Choice and Risk-Free Assets

Debt Maturity Choice and Risk-Free Assets
Author: Calvin Schnure
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1998
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This paper models a firm's issuance of commercial paper (CP) as a strategy to lower its borrowing costs by taking advantage of a quot;clientele effectquot; in the demand for safe assets. The firm is willing to expose itself to liquidity risk in order to enjoy the savings on borrowing costs. A primary feature of the model is that the CP market is driven by public information because of the need to make the securities attractive to a cash management clientele. We examine characteristics of both issuers and purchasers of CP that lend support to the clientele hypothesis.

Rollover Risk in Commercial Paper Markets and Firms' Debt Maturity Choice

Rollover Risk in Commercial Paper Markets and Firms' Debt Maturity Choice
Author: Felix Thierfelder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2016
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By using short-term direct finance firms of the highest credit quality expose themselves to rollover risk in the public debt markets. Firms insure themselves against this risk by securing backup lines of credit from banks that they may use should market liquidity dry up. In a first step, this paper explains why high quality firms introduce a maturity mismatch into their balance sheets and do not simply use long-term direct finance. It also highlights why banks may be willing to roll over a firm's debt while direct investors may not. In a second step, I extend the model to allow for different levels of firm's publicly observable credit quality. Under plausible assumptions about the cost of bank borrowing the model generates a maturity structure choice broadly consistent with observed financing patterns: Low quality firms issue short-term direct debt, medium quality firms issue long-term direct debt, and high quality firms use short-term direct debt in normal times and bank debt in adverse times. The paper suggests that better publicly available information about firm quality and the moderation of the business cycle over the past decade help to explain the decrease in nonfinancial commercial paper outstanding since the beginning of the decade.Kapitalmarktfähige Unternehmen können sich nur dann durch die Ausgabe von kurzfristigen Geldmarktpapieren (Commercial Paper - CP) refinanzieren, wenn sie eine vernachlässigbare Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeit aufweisen. Gleichwohl ist es diesen Firmen bisweilen nicht m ̈oglich, eine Anschlussfinanzierung vorzunehmen. In solchen Situationen können CP-Emittenten auf Kreditlinien ausweichen, sofern sie diese zuvor mit Banken vereinbart haben und sich ihre Kreditqualität bei Inanspruchnahme der Kreditlinie nicht verschlechtert hat. In dem vorliegenden Papier werden zunächst zwei Fragenkomplexe näher untersucht. Erstens, warum bekommen Firmen von höchster Kreditqualität zu bestimmten Zeiten keinen Kredit, obwohl ihre tatsächliche Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeit nahe null liegt? Zweitens, warum wählen diese Firmen eine Finanzierungsform, bei der sie sich in guten Zeiten über die Ausgabe von Geldmarktpapieren finanzieren und in schlechten Zeiten einen Bankkredit in Anspruch nehmen? Warum nehmen sie eine Inkongruenz der Laufzeiten zwischen Aktiv- und Passivseite in Kauf, anstatt lang laufende Anleihen zu emittieren und sich somit keinem Refinanzierungsrisiko auszusetzen?

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.

Money and Capital Markets

Money and Capital Markets
Author: Peter S. Rose
Publisher: Irwin/McGraw-Hill
Total Pages: 818
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780071198806

This text analyzes the entire financial system and its component parts with an expanded discussion of the trend toward globalization of financial markets and institutions. It also discusses all major types of financial instruments and provides a grounding in interest price determination.

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.

Capital Markets, CDFIs, and Organizational Credit Risk

Capital Markets, CDFIs, and Organizational Credit Risk
Author: Charles Tansey
Publisher: Carsey Institute
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780578062228

Can Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) get unlimited amounts of low cost, unsecured, short- and long-term funding from the capital markets based on their organizational credit risk? Can they get pricing, flexibility, and procedural parity with for-profit corporations of equivalent credit risk? One of the key objectives of this book is to explain the reasons why the answer to the two questions above remains "no." The other two key objectives are to show the inner workings of what has been done to date to overcome the obstacles so that we don't have to retrace the same steps and recommend additional disciplines that position CDFIs to take advantage of the mechanisms of the capital markets once the markets stabilize.