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Securities class actions, corporate governance and managerial agency problems
Strahan, Philip E. (1998)
This paper provides support for the proposition that securities class actions help solve agency problems. Two key findings support this conclusion. First, firms that are more likely to suffer from agency problems are more likely to face class actions. Risky firms, large firms, young firms, low market-to-book firms and non-dividend paying firms as of the end of 1990 were more likely to face a class action filing during the January 1991 to March 1998 period. Second, the probability of CEO turnover increases dramatically after class action filings. The increase can not be explained by omitted ...
Research Paper , Paper 9816

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Capital flows & current account deficits in the 1990s: why did Latin America & East Asian countries respond differently?
Antzoulatos, Angelos A. (1996)
The return of private capital to highly indebted less-developed countries (LDCs) in the late 1980s was accompanied by widening current account deficits in the recipient countries, which were primarily attributed to a consumption boom in Latin America and an investment surge in East Asia. Interpreting the return as an increase in the external debt ceiling, the maximum amount that can be borrowed, this paper analyzes and compares the different response of the two regions using the conceptual framework of a borrowing-constrained agent. According to it, an increase in the debt ceiling can reduce ...
Research Paper , Paper 9610

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The supply side consequences of U.S. fiscal policy in the 1980s
Akhtar, M. A.; Harris, Ethan S. (1991)
Research Paper , Paper 9129

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Foreign direct investment and indebted developing countries
Hickok, Susan; Arguelles, R. (1986)
Research Paper , Paper 8609

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Increased price flexibility and output stability
Cantor, Richard (1988)
Research Paper , Paper 8803

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Information problems and deposit constraints at banks
Jayaratne, Jith; Morgan, Donald P. (1997)
Following the investment-cash flow literature, we test whether bank lending is constrained by the availability of insured deposits--a necessary condition for the existence of bank lending channel of monetary policy. We treat insured deposits as a type of "internal fund," similar to cash flows. We use a simple model to sort out the possible identification issues in interpreting a lending-deposit correlation, including reverse causality and omitted variable bias. To minimize the latter, we split the sample of banks by leverage and also use deposit flows at sister banks within a holding ...
Research Paper , Paper 9731

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Interest rate options dealers' hedging in the US dollar fixed income market
Kambhu, John (1997)
The potential for the dynamic hedging of written options to lead to positive feedback in asset price dynamics has received repeated attention in the literature on financial derivatives. Using data on OTC interest rate options from a recent survey of global derivatives markets, this paper addresses the question whether that potential for positive feedback is likely to be realized. With the possible exception of the medium term segment of the term structure, transaction volume in available hedging instruments is sufficiently large to absorb the demands resulting from the dynamic hedging of US ...
Research Paper , Paper 9719

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Are the preliminary announcements of some macroeconomic variables rational?
Chan, Anthony (1990)
Research Paper , Paper 9035

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Elasticities of substitution in real business cycle models with home production
Ludvigson, Sydney; Campbell, John Y. (1997)
Recently, there has been considerable interest in modifying the standard real business cycle model to include home production. In this paper, we construct a simple model of home production that demonstrates the connection between the intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES), and the elasticity of substitution between home and market consumption. Understanding this connection is important because there is much larger body of empirical evidence on the size of the IES than there is on the size of the static home-market substitution elasticity. We use this framework to shed light on the ...
Research Paper , Paper 9733

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Two factors along the yield curve
Gong, Frank F.; Remolona, Eli M. (1996)
We estimate two-factor equilibrium models on different parts of the yield curve. In this exploration of the term structure of interest rates, we use two-factor affine yield models as our diagnostic tool. The exercise provides insights on how to reconcile the time-series dynamics of interest rates with the cross-sectional shapes of the term structure and on how movements in the yield curve are related to macroeconomic fundamentals. The evidence favors models in which one factor reverts over time to a time-varying mean. One such model seems adequate to explain three-month to two-year bond ...
Research Paper , Paper 9613

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