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Derivatives Supply and Corporate Hedging: Evidence from the Safe Harbor Reform of 2005

Erasmo Giambona | Ye Wang

Are supply-side fluctuations in the derivatives market important for corporate risk management? If the supply of hedging instruments is perfectly elastic, then hedging levels are determined...

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Bond Workouts, Distressed Equity Offerings and State Interventionism - The Inefficiency of French Law Concerning the Restructuring of Large Distressed Companies

Sophie Vermeille

In my most recent paper, ‘Bond workouts, distressed equity offerings and State interventionism - Analysis of the Consequences of the Inefficiency of French Law Concerning the Restructuring of Large...

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Corporate Finance

US Court of Appeals Issues Important Decision for Bond Market

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

In a well-reasoned decision, the Second Circuit yesterday resolved an issue that has caused significant uncertainty for out-of-court debt restructurings and, as a result, for the corporate debt...

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Commercial Law

Yes, You Can Have Too Few Lawyers! A Quasi-Natural Experiment On the Effect of Lawyers, Yakuza and Zombie Firms on the Japanese Economy.

Paolo Campana | Ken Okamura

Anti-lawyer sentiment pervades modern popular culture: ‘What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?’ asks the fictional character Andrew Beckett in the 1993 movie...

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How Institutions’ Choice of Counterparties can Raise Systemic Risk

Jessie Jiaxu Wang

The modern financial system is highly interconnected. Institutions engage in a diverse range of transactions and contracts with each other. Examples include the interbank lending market and the over-...

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