Search for dissertations about: "credit risk effect"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the words credit risk effect.
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16. Essays in empirical finance
Abstract : “Going Online? The Motive of Firms to Borrow from the Crowd” investigates firms’ motivation to seek crowdlending using a novel Swedish dataset. Firms that borrow from the crowd have higher growth rates and external financing demand, but lower tangibility and fewer available assets to pledge as collateral, compared with firms that borrow from banks. READ MORE
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17. Empirical essays on macro-financial linkages
Abstract : How do financial variables, such as firms’ cash flow and banks’ capital, affect macroeconomic variables, such as investment and GDP growth? What are the macroeconomic effects of exchange rate depreciation in countries where firms and households have extensive foreign-currency liabilities? The doctoral thesis Empirical Essays on Macro-Financial Linkages consists of four separate papers in the field of empirical macroeconomics. The first three papers investigate the macroeconomic implications of financial-market imperfections. READ MORE
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18. Banks, Shocks and Monetary Policy
Abstract : Essay 1: This paper studies the effect of monetary policy on the economy, distinguishing the effects of exogenous monetary policy shocks from information shocks that reveal the Federal Reserve's assessment of the economic outlook. To identify these two shocks, I exploit the difference in information content in public announcements by the Fed in its statements (released on decision days) and minutes of FOMC meetings (transcripts of the policy decision, released at a later date). READ MORE
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19. Microeconometric Applications in Corporate Finance and Sports
Abstract : This thesis presents five applications of microeconometric techniques in the fields of corporate finance and sports. Each chapter is self-contained. In chapter 1, we analyze how firms recover from an unexpected loss of critical capital, such as machinery or buildings. READ MORE
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20. Essays on Saving, Borrowing and Intangible Capital
Abstract : Essay I: Can an increasing importance of intangible capital in the economy explain increases in markups and profits? I use a heterogeneous firm model to show how intangible capital is related to markups and profits at the industry level. The uncertainty and scalability properties of intangible capital imply that firms that succeed in their intangible capital investment can charge high markups relative to other firms, whereas firms that fail will exit. READ MORE
