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Stock market fundamentals
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Government deficits: good, bad or irrelevant?
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Alternative methods of corporate control in commercial banks
In this article, Stephen Prowse investigates how owners of commercial banks encourage management to follow value-maximizing policies. While the "corporate control mechanism" in nonfinancial firms is well documented, for the banking industry much less evidence is available. Moreover, unique factors in the operating environment of commercial banks may mean that their corporate control mechanism operates differently from that of nonfinancial firms. ; Prowse analyzes a sample of bank holding companies (BHCs) from 1987 to 1992 to determine how many underwent a change in corporate control by ...
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Recent developments in the market for privately placed debt
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The structure of corporate ownership in Japan
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Corporate financing and governance: an international perspective
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Is Texas' real estate boom a house of cards?
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The economics of private placements : middle-market corporate finance, life insurance companies, and a credit crunch
In this article, Stephen Prowse examines the private placement market. Like the bank loan market, this market is information-intensive: parties negotiate lending terms, lenders evaluate and monitor borrowers' credit risk, covenants are used to control risk, and borrowers lack access to public debt markets. There are also differences from the bank loan market : debt instruments are securities, not loans; maturities are longer; interest rates are fixed, not floating; and the principal investors are life insurance companies not banks. The article provides evidence on the credit crunch that ...