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Ali Lazrak

University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business

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Leverage Choice and Credit Spread Dynamics When Managers Risk Shift

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Leverage Choice and Credit Spread Dynamics When Managers Risk Shift

Sauder School of Business Working Paper, AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper, Paris December 2007 Finance International Meeting AFFI-EUROFIDAI Paper
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 17 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2008
Murray Carlson and Ali Lazrak
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business
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Capital structure, credit spreads, managerial compensation

Leverage Choice and Credit Spread Dynamics When Managers Risk Shift

EFA 2009 Bergen Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 17 Feb 2009
Murray Carlson and Ali Lazrak
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business
Downloads 280 (268,883)
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compensation structure, credit spread, CDS rates, leverage

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Asset Pricing with Responsible Consumption

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 06 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 07 May 2026
Xuhui Chen, Lorenzo Garlappi and Ali Lazrak
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business
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Responsible consumption, Demand elasticity, Green premium, ESG, Capital Allocation

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Implications of Sharpe Ratio as a Performance Measure in Multi-Period Settings

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Feb 2007
Jaksa Cvitanic, Tan Wang and Ali Lazrak
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Finance and University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business
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Sharpe Ratio, Performance Measures, Money Managers

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Why Divest? The Political and Informational Roles of Institutions in Asset Stranding

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 03 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2026
Murray Carlson, Adlai J. Fisher and Ali Lazrak
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business
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Divestment, asset stranding, political channel of divestment

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Group-Managed Real Options

Proceedings of Paris December 2020 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - ESSEC
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2021
Lorenzo Garlappi, Ron Giammarino and Ali Lazrak
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business
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group decisions, dynamic voting, real investment

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Ambiguity and the Corporation: Group Disagreement and Underinvestment

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 17 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2017
Lorenzo Garlappi, Ron Giammarino and Ali Lazrak
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business
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ambiguity, group decisions, dynamic consistency, dynamic real investment, security issuance.

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Household Wealth and Portfolio Choice When Tail Events Are Salient

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 21 Sep 2014
Murray Carlson and Ali Lazrak
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business
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behavioral finance, nonstandard preference, portfolio choice

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Unlocking Democratic Efficiency: How Coordinated Outcome-Contingent Promises Shape Decisions

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 02 May 2023 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2025
Ali Lazrak and Jianfeng Zhang
University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business and University of Southern California - Department of Mathematics
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Decentralized and simultaneous promises, political failure, majority coercion, stability, principle of least action

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Dynamic Portfolio Choice with Parameter Uncertainty and the Economic Value of Analysts' Recommendations

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 19, Issue 4, pp. 1113-1156, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Jak[scaron]a Cvitani[cacute], Fernando Zapatero, Ali Lazrak and Lionel Martellini
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Boston University - Questrom School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business and EDHEC Business School

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Household Wealth and Portfolio Choice When Tail Events Are Salient

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 16 Aug 2015
Murray Carlson and Ali Lazrak
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business
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Probability weighting, portfolio choice, Insurance, gambling, rank dependent utility