SSRN JEL Code: G33

1.

Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Sep 2004

Working Paper Series

Lawrence D. Brown and Marcus L. Caylor

Temple University - Department of Accounting and Kennesaw State University

Downloads 26,386

2.

The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 75, p. 1019, 2007, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-22, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-36, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 07-74

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2010

Accepted Paper Series

David A. Skeel Jr. and Frank Partnoy

University of Pennsylvania Law School and University of San Diego School of Law

Downloads 9,686

3.

Forecasting Default with the KMV-Merton Model

AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 31 Dec 2004

Working Paper Series

Sreedhar T. Bharath and Tyler Shumway

Arizona State University - W.P. Carey School of Business and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Downloads 7,641

4.

Secret Liens and the Financial Crisis of 2008

American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 83, p. 253, 2009

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Michael Simkovic

USC Gould School of Law

Downloads 6,378

5.

Corporate Governance and Firm Valuation

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2006

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2014

Working Paper Series

Lawrence D. Brown and Marcus L. Caylor

Temple University - Department of Accounting and Kennesaw State University

Downloads 6,255

6.

Capital Structure and Debt Structure

EFA 2008 Athens Meetings Paper, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2010

Working Paper Series

Joshua D. Rauh and Amir Sufi

Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 6,038

7.

A Dynamic Model of Optimal Capital Structure

McCombs Research Paper Series No. FIN-03-06

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 19 Nov 2002

Working Paper Series

Sergey Tsyplakov and Sheridan Titman

University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,740

8.

Valuation Methods and Shareholder Value Creation

VALUATION METHODS AND SHAREHOLDER VALUE CREATION, Academic Press, 2002

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 22 Nov 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Pablo Fernandez

University of Navarra - IESE Business School

Downloads 5,690

9.

The Anatomy of an LBO: Leverage, Control and Value

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Jul 2008

Working Paper Series

Aswath Damodaran

New York University - Stern School of Business

Downloads 4,923

10.

Forecasting Bankruptcy More Accurately: A Simple Hazard Model

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Aug 1999

Working Paper Series

Tyler Shumway

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,922

11.

Creditor Control Rights, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 17 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2011

Working Paper Series

Greg Nini, Amir Sufi and David C. Smith

Drexel University - Department of Finance, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce

Downloads 4,764

12.

Does Fair Value Accounting Contribute to Systemic Risk in the Banking Industry?

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 15 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2011

Working Paper Series

Urooj Khan

Columbia Business School - Accounting, Business Law & Taxation

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,653

13.

Financial Engineering, Corporate Governance, and the Collapse of Enron

U of Delaware Coll. of Bus. and Econ. Ctr. for Corp. Governance Working Paper No. 2002-001

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 16 Jan 2003

Working Paper Series

Stuart Gillan and John D. Martin

University of Georgia - Department of Finance and Baylor University - Department of Finance, Insurance & Real Estate

Downloads 4,593

14.

A Model of Credit Risk, Optimal Policies, and Asset Prices

AFA 2002 Atlanta Meetings; NYU Finance Working Paper

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 21 Mar 2001

Working Paper Series

Suleyman Basak and Alex Shapiro

London Business School and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance

There are 5 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,359

15.

Bank Failure, Mark-to-Market and the Financial Crisis

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 27 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2011

Working Paper Series

Amir Amel-Zadeh and Geoff Meeks

University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,275

16.

Bankruptcy and the Resolution of Financial Distress

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 24 Jan 2008

Working Paper Series

Edith S. Hotchkiss, Kose John, Karin S. Thorburn and Robert M. Mooradian

Boston College - Carroll School of Management, New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance, Norwegian School of Economics and Northeastern University, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Finance Area

Downloads 4,194

17.

The Information Role of Conservatism

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 02 Aug 2006

Working Paper Series

Ryan LaFond and Ross L. Watts

Algert Global, LLC and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,189

18.

Stock Market Liquidity and Firm Dividend Policy

EFMA 2003 Helsinki Meetings

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Apr 2003

Working Paper Series

Suman Banerjee, Vladimir A. Gatchev and Paul A. Spindt

Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Central Florida - Department of Finance and Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,105

19.

Impact of Working Capital Management and Capital Structure on Profitability of Automobile Firms in Pakistan

Finance and Corporate Governance Conference 2011 Paper

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2010

Working Paper Series

H. Jamal Zubairi

Institute of Business Management

Downloads 3,957

20.

Financial Networks and Contagion

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 10 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2014

Working Paper Series

Matthew Elliott, Benjamin Golub and Matthew O. Jackson

California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Harvard University and Stanford University - Department of Economics

Downloads 3,914

21.

Bankruptcy or Bailouts?

Journal of Corporation Law, Vol. 35, p. 469, 2010, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-11, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-05

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2010

Working Paper Series

Kenneth Ayotte and David A. Skeel Jr.

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School

Downloads 3,892

22.

Valuing Declining and Distressed Companies

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 02 Jul 2009

Working Paper Series

Aswath Damodaran

New York University - Stern School of Business

Downloads 3,846

23.

Managerial Traits and Capital Structure Decisions

EFA 2004 Maastricht Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 03 Feb 2003

Working Paper Series

Dirk Hackbarth

Boston University Questrom School of Business

Downloads 3,734

24.

Counterparty Risk FAQ: Credit VaR, PFE, CVA, DVA, Closeout, Netting, Collateral, Re-Hypothecation, WWR, Basel, Funding, CCDS and Margin Lending

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 05 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2012

Working Paper Series

Damiano Brigo

Imperial College London - Department of Mathematics

Downloads 3,708

25.

Credit Rating Agencies in Capital Markets: A Review of Research Evidence on Selected Criticisms of the Agencies

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Jun 2006

Working Paper Series

Carol Ann Frost

University of North Texas

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,584

26.

Have Financial Statements Become Less Informative? Evidence from the Ability of Financial Ratios to Predict Bankruptcy

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 02 Feb 2005

Working Paper Series

William H. Beaver, Maureen F. McNichols and Jung-Wu Rhie

Stanford University, Stanford University and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business (Deceased)

Downloads 3,543

27.

Assessing the Probability of Bankruptcy

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 03 May 2002

Working Paper Series

Stephen A. Hillegeist, Elizabeth K. Keating, Donald P. Cram and Kyle G. Lundstedt

Arizona State University (ASU) - W. P. Carey School of Business, School of Accountancy, Harvard University - John F. Kennedy School of Government, State University of New York, Oswego and VaRisk, Inc.

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,506

28.

Misbehavior and Mistake in Bankruptcy Mortgage Claims

U of Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-29, Texas Law Review, Vol. 87, 2008

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Katherine M. Porter

University of California - Irvine School of Law

Downloads 3,506

29.

Bankruptcy Prediction With Industry Effects

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Oct 2001

Working Paper Series

Sudheer Chava and Robert A. Jarrow

Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Downloads 3,428

30.

Accounting Conservatism and Bankruptcy Risk

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 06 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2016

Working Paper Series

Gary C. Biddle, Mary L. Z. Ma and Frank M. Song

University of Melbourne - Faculty of Business and Economics, York University and The University of Hong Kong - School of Economics and Finance

Downloads 3,346

31.

Corporate Governance in Asia: A Survey

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Apr 2003

Working Paper Series

Stijn Claessens and Joseph P. H. Fan

Bank for International Settlements and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - School of Accountancy

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,173

32.

Credit Ratings and Credit Risk: Is One Measure Enough?

AFA 2013 San Diego Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 18 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2015

Working Paper Series

Jens Hilscher and Mungo Ivor Wilson

University of California, Davis and University of Oxford - Said Business School

Downloads 3,166

33.

Valuation of Bankrupt Firms

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 27 Jul 1998

Working Paper Series

Stuart C. Gilson, Edith S. Hotchkiss and Richard S. Ruback

Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Boston College - Carroll School of Management and Harvard Business School

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,022

34.

Law and the Rise of the Firm

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 326

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Jan 2006

Working Paper Series

Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire

Yale Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,778

35.

The Derivatives Market's Payment Priorities as Financial Crisis Accelerator

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 63, Issue3, p. 539, 2011, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 153/2010, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 10-17

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 09 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Mark J. Roe

Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,682

36.

Macro Stress Testing with a Macroeconomic Credit Risk Model for Finland

Bank of Finland Discussion Paper No. 18/2004

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 24 Nov 2004

Working Paper Series

Kimmo Virolainen

Bank of Finland

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,664

37.

Leveraged Buyout Bankruptcies, the Problem of Hindsight Bias, and the Credit Default Swap Solution

Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2011, No. 1, p. 118, 2011, Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 1632084

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Michael Simkovic and Benjamin Kaminetzky

USC Gould School of Law and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP - New York Office

Downloads 2,626

38.

Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?

Review of Financial Studies 29, no. 2 (February 2016): 271-308

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 11 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist

Cornerstone Research and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,602

39.

An Accurate Solution for Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) and Wrong Way Risk

Journal of Fixed Income, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 21 May 2013 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Tim Xiao

Risk Models, BMO Capital Markets

Downloads 2,553

40.

Private Equity and the Resolution of Financial Distress

AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 331/2012

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 21 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2014

Working Paper Series

Edith S. Hotchkiss, Per Strömberg and David C. Smith

Boston College - Carroll School of Management, Swedish House of Finance and University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce

Downloads 2,551

41.

Pecking Order Versus Trade-off: An Empirical Approach to the Small and Medium Enterprise Capital Structure

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 May 2003

Working Paper Series

Francisco Sogorb-Mira and José López-Gracia

Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera - Department of Business and Economics and University of Valencia - Department of Accounting

Downloads 2,446

42.

Macroeconomic Conditions and the Puzzles of Credit Spreads and Capital Structure

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 30 Sep 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Hui Chen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,416

43.

Do Bankruptcy Codes Matter? A Study of Defaults in France, Germany and the UK

EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings Paper, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 89/2005, WFA 2005 Portland Meetings Paper, AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 05 Jan 2005

Working Paper Series

Sergei A. Davydenko and Julian R. Franks

University of Toronto - Finance Area and London Business School

Downloads 2,412

44.

RiskCalc for Private Companies: Moody's Default Model

As published in Global Credit Research, May 2000

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 01 Nov 2000

Accepted Paper Series

Eric G. Falkenstein, Andrew Boral and Lea V. Carty

Pine River Capital Management, Moody's Investors Service and Moody's Investors Service

Downloads 2,407

45.

The Rise of a Giant: Securitization and the Global Financial Crisis

American Business Law Journal, Vol. 49, No. 4, p. 859, 2012

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 05 Jan 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dov Solomon

College of Law and Business - Ramat Gan Law School

Downloads 2,403

46.

Predatory Structured Finance

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 5, 2007

Number of pages: 100 Posted: 10 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Christopher Lewis Peterson

University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law

Downloads 2,380

47.

Capital Structure in Venture Finance

Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 11, pp. 550-585, 2005

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 31 Mar 2000

Accepted Paper Series

Douglas J. Cumming

York University - Schulich School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,374

48.

Equity and Debt Decoupling and Empty Voting II: Importance and Extensions

as published in University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 156, pp. 625-739, 2008, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. , U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 122

Number of pages: 116 Posted: 20 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2008

Working Paper Series

Henry T. C. Hu and Bernard S. Black

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 2,345

49.

The Relationship between Liquidity Risk and Credit Risk in Banks

Shortened Version published in Journal of Banking & Finance 40(1), 242-256

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Björn Imbierowicz and Christian Rauch

Copenhagen Business School and American University of Sharjah

Downloads 2,340

50.

Credit Risk versus Capital Requirements under Basel II: Are SME Loans and Retail Credit Really Different?

Journal of Financial Services Research, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Feb 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Tor Jacobson, Jesper Lindé and Kasper Roszbach

Sveriges Riksbank - Research Division, Sveriges Riksbank - Research Division and Norges Bank

Downloads 2,336

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