Debt and entrenchment: Evidence from Thailand and Indonesia

This paper examines the relation between debt and corporate governance in emerging market economies. We use firm-level panel data of listed companies from Thailand and Indonesia to analyze the firm’s corporate financing behaviors in connection with its corporate governance arrangements. Our results show that the debt structure is linked to the corporate governance. We find that weaker corporate governance firms, in particular measured by the entrenchment effects, tend to have a higher debt level. The evidence is relatively stronger during the crisis period. Our results also shed lights on the importance of the country-specific institutional settings that would affect the empirical results.     

资产价值服从跳-扩散过程的风险债券定价

作为对结构化模型和简化模型的改进,本文将结构化模型和简化模型两者融合后提出了一种特殊的跳-扩散过程.在假设公司价值服从这一类跳-扩散过程的情况下,建立了公司风险债券价值所满足的方程,并利用鞅方法得到了公司债券的定价公式.     

Statistical ensembles for money and debt

We build a statistical ensemble representation of two economic models describing respectively, in simplified terms, a payment system and a credit market. To this purpose we adopt the Boltzmann–Gibbs distribution where the role of the Hamiltonian is taken by the total money supply (i.e. including money created from debt) of a set of interacting economic agents. As a result, we can read the main thermodynamic quantities in terms of monetary ones. In particular, we define for the credit market model a work term which is related to the impact of monetary policy on credit creation. Furthermore, with our formalism we recover and extend some results concerning the temperature of an economic system, previously presented in the literature by considering only the monetary base as a conserved quantity. Finally, we study the statistical ensemble for the Pareto distribution.     

负债代理冲突下企业投融资互动行为的实物期权分析

准确分析企业投融资之间的互动关系,实现两种决策的协同,有助于提高企业决策效率和项目价值.通过把项目融资政策内生到投资决策的实物期权模型中,构建基于股东价值最大化和企业价值最大化的投融资决策互动模型,得到两种情形下的投融资决策临界点和期权价值,并借助数值分析负债代理冲突对企业投融资行为的影响.研究结果表明,负债融资既可能引发过度投资问题,也可能抑制投资.这种非效率投资将相应地提高负债融资的成本,对企业的负债融资产生抑制作用.     

Debt recapitalization and value in waiting to finance a project

This paper shows that an option to recapitalize with debt accelerates the exercise of a real option to start an irreversible project investment. The debt-recapitalization add-on, while not directly affecting project cash flows, influences the timing of the project start by offering an extra gain from tax savings less debt costs. This finding demonstrates that capital structure decisions are closely linked to project investment decisions, a deviation from the standard optimal investment rule of the real option theory.     

A framework for valuing corporate securities

We suggest a methodology for valuing corporate securities that allows the straightforward derivation of closed form solutions for complex scenarios. The tractability of the framework stems from its modularity-we provide a number of intuitive building blocks that are sufficient for valuation in typical situations. A further advantage of our approach is that it makes economic interpretation far easier than what is typically possible with other approaches, such as solving systems of partial differential equations. As examples we consider a corporate coupon bond with discrete payments, and debt subject to strategic debt service.     

欧元区国家金融市场的风险溢出效应研究

采用CoVaR方法分析欧元区金融市场的风险关联,通过测度金融市场间的系统性风险溢出效应,考察单个市场的脆弱性和对系统性风险的贡献性.实证发现,一方面,危机程度较严重的欧洲五国市场的风险关联较强,但风险传染并不明显,陷入危机主要是源于自身经济出现问题;另一方面,德国靠其强大的经济基础,受到的影响是有限的,扮演着稳定市场的角色.     

Key words结构视角下的欧元区主权债务可持续性研究

基于债务结构的研究视角,以德国和PIIGS五国为例,构建主权债务可持续性模型,量化研究债务自身结构、宏观经济结构以及财政支出结构对债务可持续性的影响,并运用向量自回归模型进行检验.研究结果表明：适度地提高长期债券所占比重（以65％-75％为宜）,同时降低短期债务的比重（不超过15％）,改善宏观经济结构并促进国内就业,扩大固定资产投资的财政支出,均有助于抑制债务规模的持续扩张,维持主权债务的可持续性.     

A multistage linear stochastic programming model for optimal corporate debt management

Large corporations fund their capital and operational expenses by issuing bonds with a variety of indexations, denominations, maturities and amortization schedules. We propose a multistage linear stochastic programming model that optimizes bond issuance by minimizing the mean funding cost while keeping leverage under control and insolvency risk at an acceptable level. The funding requirements are determined by a fixed investment schedule with uncertain cash flows. Candidate bonds are described in a detailed and realistic manner. A specific scenario tree structure guarantees computational tractability even for long horizon problems. Based on a simplified example, we present a sensitivity analysis of the first stage solution and the stochastic efficient frontier of the mean-risk trade-off. A realistic exercise stresses the importance of controlling leverage. Based on the proposed model, a financial planning tool has been implemented and deployed for Brazilian oil company Petrobras.