Market based compensation, price informativeness and short-term trading
In: Working paper series 735
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In: Working paper series 735
In: Working paper series 2006,27
In: Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et Politiques N.S., 371
In: Journal of Economic Theory, Forthcoming
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In: ECB Working Paper No. 735
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In: Journal of financial economic policy, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 243-261
ISSN: 1757-6393
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study the impact of the 2007 Italian severance payment reform on the cost and the access to credit for small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs).Design/methodology/approachThe authors study the implications of the reform adapting the theoretical credit‐rationing model of Holmstrom and Tirole, then estimate the capital outflows due to the reform and, using the theoretical prediction, assess its impact using mathematical simulations.FindingsThe authors predict that the reform may cause severe credit constraints to SMEs which cannot pledge enough collateral in order to obtain credit. The most direct consequences are to reduce in the long run the amount of liquid assets available to Italian firms, and to reduce their aggregate investment in a more than proportional way, due to access to credit restrictions. However, it will not increase the cost of intermediated finance, ceteris paribus.Practical implicationsThe fact that the reform restricts access to credit, but does not increase the cost of debt, has important policy consequences, as public interventions subsidizing credit through a constant cost of debt may be ineffective.Originality/valueWhile the topic has been analyzed in several respects (e.g. workers' participation to the reform, cost of an access to credit subsidy, etc.), no other study proposed an integrated view of these effects with a rigorous micro‐economic approach.
In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Band 140
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In: JBF-D-24-00713
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