Jean Helwege

UC Riverside

900 University Ave.

Anderson Hall

Riverside, CA 92521

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (35)

1.

Structural Models of Corporate Bond Pricing: An Empirical Analysis

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Mar 2002
Young Ho Eom, Jing-Zhi Huang and Jean Helwege
Yonsei University, Pennsylvania State University - University Park - Department of Finance and UC Riverside
Downloads 3,379 (5,925)
Citation 174

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Credit risk, structural models

Foreign Currency Exposure and Hedging: Evidence from Foreign Acquisitions

Quarterly Journal of Finance, Vol. 3 (2), June 2013, 1–20; WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 98
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2022
Söhnke M. Bartram, Natasha Burns and Jean Helwege
University of Warwick, University of Texas at San Antonio - Department of Finance and UC Riverside
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Exchange Rates, Exposure, Hedging, Derivatives, Mergers, Acquisitions

Foreign Currency Exposure and Hedging: Evidence from Foreign Acquisitions

AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper, WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 122
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2019
Söhnke M. Bartram, Natasha Burns and Jean Helwege
University of Warwick, University of Texas at San Antonio - Department of Finance and UC Riverside
Downloads 287 (176,811)

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Exchange Rates, Exposure, Hedging, Derivatives, Mergers, Acquisitions

Foreign Currency Exposure and Hedging: Evidence from Foreign Acquisitions

WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 103
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2019
Söhnke M. Bartram, Natasha Burns and Jean Helwege
University of Warwick, University of Texas at San Antonio - Department of Finance and UC Riverside
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Exchange Rates, Exposure, Hedging, Derivatives, Mergers, Acquisitions

Foreign Currency Exposure and Hedging: Evidence from Foreign Acquisitions

WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 83
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2019
Söhnke M. Bartram, Natasha Burns and Jean Helwege
University of Warwick, University of Texas at San Antonio - Department of Finance and UC Riverside
Downloads 115 (398,101)
Citation 1

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Exchange rates, exposure, hedging, derivatives, mergers, acquisitions

Foreign Currency Exposure and Hedging: Evidence from Foreign Acquisitions

WBS Finance Group Research Paper No. 90
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2019
Söhnke M. Bartram, Natasha Burns and Jean Helwege
University of Warwick, University of Texas at San Antonio - Department of Finance and UC Riverside
Downloads 77 (520,572)
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hedging, exchange rates, exposure, derivatives, mergers

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Regulate OTC Derivatives by Deregulating Them

Regulation, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 30-41, Fall 2009, UCLA School of Law, Law-Econ Research Paper No. 09-22
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 12 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2009
Cornell Law School - Jack G. Clarke Business Law Institute (deceased), UC Riverside, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and University of Houston - Department of Finance
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OTC derivatives, derivatives, Irwin v. Williar, CDS, speculation, Commodities Futures Modernization Act

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Liquidity Effects in Corporate Bond Spreads

Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2013
Jean Helwege, Jing-Zhi Huang and Yuan Wang
UC Riverside, Pennsylvania State University - University Park - Department of Finance and Concordia University, Quebec
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Corporate bond spreads, Liquidity risk, Credit risk, Pairwise difference estimation

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Citation 62

Underpricing in the Corporate Bond Market

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 14 Mar 2006
Kelly Nianyun Cai, Jean Helwege and Arthur Warga
University of Michigan at Dearborn - School of Management, UC Riverside and University of Houston - Department of Finance
Downloads 561 (81,790)
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bonds, reputation, underpricing, debt IPOs

Underpricing in the Corporate Bond Market

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 31 Jul 2007
Kelly Nianyun Cai, Jean Helwege and Arthur Warga
University of Michigan at Dearborn - School of Management, UC Riverside and University of Houston - Department of Finance
Downloads 246 (206,652)
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bonds, reputation, underpricing, debt IPOs

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Crises, Liquidity Shocks, and Fire Sales at Financial Institutions

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 18 May 2014
Nicole M. Boyson, Jean Helwege and Jan Jindra
Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business, UC Riverside and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
Downloads 797 (52,594)
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Liquidity shocks, funding shocks, fire sales, financial crisis, banks, investment banks, hedge funds, financial constraints

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Citation 12

Financial Firm Bankruptcy and Systemic Risk

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2009
Jean Helwege
UC Riverside
Downloads 508 (92,656)
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Financial institutions, systemic risk, Too big to fail, fire sales, counterparty risk

Financial Firm Bankruptcy and Systemic Risk

Regulation, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 24-29, Summer 2009
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 14 Jul 2009
Jean Helwege
UC Riverside
Downloads 214 (236,524)

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TBTF, To Big to Fail, financial contagion, financial crisis, information contagion, counterparty contagion, SIPA

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Understanding Aggregate Default Rates of High Yield Bonds

Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Vol. 2, No. 6, May 1996
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 21 Jul 2007
Jean Helwege and Paul Kleiman
UC Riverside and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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default rates, high-yield bonds, credit quality

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Voting with Their Feet or Activism? Institutional Investors’ Impact on CEO Turnover

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 21 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2020
UC Riverside, Clemson University, Department of Finance and University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Department of Finance
Downloads 661 (67,324)
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Forced CEO turnover, Institutional investors, Voting with their feet, Exit, Governance

Why Do Firms Become Widely Held? An Analysis of the Dynamics of Corporate Ownership

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 Aug 2005
UC Riverside, University of Central Florida and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
Downloads 542 (85,375)
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Why Do Firms Become Widely Held? An Analysis of the Ynamics of Corporate Ownership

NBER Working Paper No. w11505
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 08 Sep 2005 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2022
UC Riverside, University of Central Florida and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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Credit Default Swap Auctions

Journal of Fixed Income, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2010
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 May 2009 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2013
Jean Helwege, Samuel Maurer, Asani Sarkar and Yuan Wang
UC Riverside, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Concordia University, Quebec
Downloads 540 (86,722)
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credit default swaps, settlement, auctions, recovery basis, corporate bonds, default

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Underpricing and Reputation Acquisition in the Corporate Bond Market

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 26 Jan 2005
Kelly Nianyun Cai, Jean Helwege and Arthur Warga
University of Michigan at Dearborn - School of Management, UC Riverside and University of Houston - Department of Finance
Downloads 469 (103,004)
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bonds, reputation, underpricing, debt IPOs

Modeling Credit Contagion via the Updating of Fragile Beliefs

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 05 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2015
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and UC Riverside
Downloads 340 (147,551)
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Contagion, sovereign risk, CDS pricing, fragile beliefs, learning, affine models

Modeling Credit Contagion Via the Updating of Fragile Beliefs

Netspar Discussion Paper No. 12/2011-123 - revised version February 2014
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 24 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2016
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and UC Riverside
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Debt Covenants and Cross-Sectional Equity Returns

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2015
Jean Helwege, Jing-Zhi Huang and Yuan Wang
UC Riverside, Pennsylvania State University - University Park - Department of Finance and Concordia University, Quebec
Downloads 383 (130,413)
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Crises, Liquidity Shocks, and Fire Sales at Commercial Banks

Financial Management (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 18 May 2014
Nicole M. Boyson, Jean Helwege and Jan Jindra
Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business, UC Riverside and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
Downloads 368 (136,364)
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Commercial banks, funding shocks, liquidity shocks, fire sales, financial crisis, cherry picking, insolvency

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On Bounding Credit-Event Risk Premia

AFA
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2018
Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and UC Riverside
Downloads 358 (140,544)
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credit risk model, contagion

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Citation 10

Financial Firm Bankruptcy and Contagion

Midwest Finance Association 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 26 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2013
Jean Helwege and Gaiyan Zhang
UC Riverside and University of Missouri at St. Louis - College of Business Administration
Downloads 207 (243,878)
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Banks, counterparty contagion, information contagion, bankruptcy

Financial Firm Bankruptcy and Contagion

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2012
Jean Helwege and Gaiyan Zhang
UC Riverside and University of Missouri at St. Louis - College of Business Administration
Downloads 130 (363,043)
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Banks, counterparty contagion, information contagion, bankruptcy

Is Credit Event Risk Priced? Modeling Contagion Via the Updating of Beliefs

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 27 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2011
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and UC Riverside
Downloads 214 (236,524)
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contagion risk, fragile beliefs

Is Credit Event Risk Priced? Modeling Contagion Via the Updating of Beliefs

NBER Working Paper No. w15733
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2023
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and UC Riverside
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Liquidity and Price Pressure in the Corporate Bond Market: Evidence from Mega-Bonds

Journal of Financial Intermediation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 30 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2021
Jean Helwege and Liying Wang
UC Riverside and University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Downloads 287 (177,816)
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Corporate bonds, Liquidity, Price pressure, Mega-bonds, Offering yield spreads

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Private Matters

BIS Working Paper No. 266
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Jan 2009
Jean Helwege and Frank Packer
UC Riverside and Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
Downloads 284 (179,723)
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Private firms, IPO, initial public offering, private benefits of control, private firms, family firms, inside ownership, board composition, private equity, venture capital

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Sources of Funding in a Crisis: Evidence from Investment Banks

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 21 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2017
Jean Helwege and Jan Jindra
UC Riverside and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
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Liquidity shocks, investment banks, funding shocks, credit risk, fire sales, financial crisis, financial constraints, Level 3 assets

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Risk Aversion in Corporate Bond Markets

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 12 May 2022
Antje Berndt, Ilya Dergunov and Jean Helwege
Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, HSE University and UC Riverside
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Risk aversion, corporate bonds, monetary policy, reaching for yield, government interventions

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Fallen Angels and Price Pressure

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Mar 2011
Pennsylvania State University, University of Michigan at Dearborn - School of Management and UC Riverside
Downloads 201 (250,644)
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price pressure, sunshine trading, informed trader, fallen angel bonds, insurance

Fallen Angels and Price Pressure

Posted: 21 May 2019
Pennsylvania State University, University of Michigan at Dearborn - School of Management and UC Riverside

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Price Pressure, Sunshine Trading, Informed Trader, Fallen Angel Bonds, Insurance Companies

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Do Hedge Fund Fire Sales Disrupt the Stock Market?

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 02 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2013
Nicole M. Boyson, Jean Helwege and Jan Jindra
Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business, UC Riverside and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
Downloads 183 (273,104)
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Liquidity shocks, fire sales, financial crisis, hedge funds

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Measuring Corporate Bond Liquidity in Emerging Market Economies: Price- vs Quantity-Based Measures

BIS Paper No. 102e
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 May 2019
Allaudeen Hameed, Jean Helwege, Ran Li and Frank Packer
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance, UC Riverside, World Bank and Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
Downloads 153 (318,354)
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corporate bonds, bond liquidity, Islamic and conventional bonds, Malaysia

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Thawing Frozen Capital Markets and Backdoor Bailouts: Evidence from the Fed's Liquidity Programs

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2015
Nicole M. Boyson, Jean Helwege and Jan Jindra
Northeastern University - D’Amore-McKim School of Business, UC Riverside and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
Downloads 123 (377,214)
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Frozen markets, liquidity, bailout, crisis

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Risk Aversion, Taxes and Capital Structure Adjustments

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2023
Othman Alolah, Jean Helwege and Raymond Kim
Imam University - Finance and Investment Department, UC Riverside and W.A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University
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CEOs, risk aversion, capital structure, speed of adjustment, taxes, Tax Cut and Jobs Act, Republican

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Modeling Credit Contagion Via the Updating of Fragile Beliefs -- Online Appendix

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 29 Jan 2015
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and UC Riverside
Downloads 73 (530,399)
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Contagion, sovereign risk, CDS pricing, fragile beliefs, learning, affine models

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TARP from the Banks’ Perspective: Evidence from Conference Calls

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 16 Aug 2021
Jean Helwege and Xin Liu
UC Riverside and Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies & Applied Statistics, CBE, Australian National University
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Underpricing in the Corporate Bond Market

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 6, pp. 2021-2046, 2007
Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Nianyun (Kelly) Cai, Jean Helwege and Arthur Warga
affiliation not provided to SSRN, UC Riverside and University of Houston - Department of Finance

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G12, G14, G24

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Initial Public Offerings in Hot and Cold Markets

Posted: 06 Oct 2004
Jean Helwege and Nellie Liang
UC Riverside and Brookings Institution

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The Decision to Go Public: Evidence from Corporate Bond Issuers

Dice Center Working Paper No. 2001-12
Posted: 23 Aug 2001
Jean Helwege and Frank Packer
UC Riverside and Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

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Is There a Pecking Order? Evidence from a Panel of IPO Firms

94-22
Posted: 20 Dec 1998
Jean Helwege and Nellie Liang
UC Riverside and Brookings Institution

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How Long Do Junk Bonds Spend in Default?

Posted: 03 Nov 1998
Jean Helwege
UC Riverside

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The Slope of the Credit Yield Curve for Speculative-Grade Issuers

Posted: 01 Mar 1998
Jean Helwege and Christopher M. Turner
UC Riverside and Black Rock Financial Management, Inc.

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