Wednesday, December 26, 2012

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: On Watchlists

Posted: 26 Dec 2012 01:38 AM PST

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Posted: 25 Dec 2012 11:35 PM PST

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Published / Preprint: A Message from the Editor

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

Published / Preprint: Executive Summaries

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

Published / Preprint: Seven Ways to Deal with a Financial Crisis: CrossâCountry Experience and Policy Implications1

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

This article presents a taxonomy of financial restructuring strategies that have been used by national policy makers to manage financial crises in the past. The goals of financial restructuring are to preserve or, if necessary, restore the debtor‐creditor relationships on which the economy depends for efficient allocation of capital, and to do so at minimal cost. Costs include not only the...

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Published / Preprint: Coming Through in a Crisis: How Chapter 11 and the Debt Restructuring Industry Are Helping to Revive the U.S. Economy

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

During the recent financial crisis, U.S. bankruptcy courts and debt restructuring practitioners were faced with the largest wave of corporate defaults and bankruptcies in history. In 2008 and 2009, $1.8 trillion worth of public company assets entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protectionâ€"almost 20 times the amount during the prior two years. And the portfolio companies of U.S. private equity firms...

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Published / Preprint: International Propagation of the Credit Crisis: Lessons for Bank Regulation*

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

The authors use a large sample of non‐U.S. banks to examine the origins and spread of the 2007â€"2009 crisis. Using both stock market and structural variables, they test whether the effects of the crisis on individual banks are better explained by crisis models or by the VaR‐type analysis of the Basel system. The latter emphasizes risk weightings for individual assets while ignoring linkages...

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Published / Preprint: A Proposal to Improve U.S. Housing Market Incentives: A Response to the Federal Reserve White Paper of January 2012

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

The U.S. housing finance market has not yet recovered from the housing price bubble that peaked in late 2006. Even though prices have fallen significantly, there are still problems in clearing the market. For the last few years, a group of financial economists and practitioners who are part of the Financial Management Association's Practitioner Demand Driven Academic Research Initiative (PDDARI)...

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Published / Preprint: A Primer on Distressed Investing: Buying Companies by Acquiring Their Debt

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

Distress or vulture investing requires a high level of business acumen combined with deep knowledge of accounting, finance, and corporate and restructuring law. In this paper, the authors provide a pedagogical discussion of an importantâ€"and socially beneficialâ€"kind of vulture investing through which creditors often gain control of distressed companies. Such investing requires intensive...

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Published / Preprint: Are Too Many Private Equity Funds Top Quartile?

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

Assessing investment performance for private equity is inherently difficult due in large part to the nature of illiquid assets. Compounding this problem, investors and researchers alike are bedeviled by the existing lack of comprehensive, high‐quality data. The current state of affairs obscures answers to basic practical questions, leads to lack of standardization, and creates confusion.read...

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Published / Preprint: What Happens During the Private Period?: Evidence from PublicâtoâPrivate Reverse LBOs

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

This study provides new evidence on the restructuring activities undertaken by public‐to‐private reverse leveraged buyouts (RLBOs) while owned by private equity firms. The authors' comprehensive sample of public‐to‐private LBOs that return to public ownership through IPOs enables them to observe changes in profitability, valuation, financial structure, operating structure, and cost...

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Published / Preprint: The Case for Secondary Buyouts as Exit Channel

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

Do private equity firms have a clear pecking order when deciding on exit channels for their portfolio companies? Are secondary buyoutsâ€"that is, sales to other PE firmsâ€"always an exit of last resort? And are there company‐ or market‐related factors that have a clear and predictable influence on decisions to pursue secondary buyouts?read more...

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Published / Preprint: Do Private Equity Funds Increase Firm Value? Evidence from Japanese Leveraged Buyouts

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

The author summarizes the findings of his recent study of 62 buyouts of listed Japanese companies by both Japanese and “foreign” private equity funds that were transacted between 2000 and 2007. Roughly half of the author's sample of transactions were accomplished by means of takeover bids by PE funds, and such deals were transacted at prices that represented a premium (of roughly 12%) to...

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Published / Preprint: CDS and the Resolution of Financial Distress

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 08:49 AM PST

The dramatic growth of Credit Default Swaps (CDS)â€"contracts that allow creditors to hedge their default exposure or take leveraged credit positionsâ€"threatens to complicate the resolution of financial distress in ways that existing reorganization methods and institutions have yet to adapt to. CDS contracts undermine a major premise that underlies current reorganization methodsâ€"namely, that...

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MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/aGkJAVQE : Top stories today via @hedgefundfocus @mjpanzner @Kiffmeister

Posted: 25 Dec 2012 06:44 AM PST

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Posted: 25 Dec 2012 05:06 AM PST

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