Douglas J. Cumming, Gael Imad’Eddine, Armin Schwienbacher
{"title":"Legality and the Spread of Voluntary Investor Protection","authors":"Douglas J. Cumming, Gael Imad’Eddine, Armin Schwienbacher","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2080084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2080084","url":null,"abstract":"We examine the spread of Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) funds around the world and consider whether such mutual funds, which voluntarily adopt higher standards of investor protection, expand their operations to other countries with higher or lower investor protection regimes. The data indicate equity funds spread to countries with better anti-director rights and bond funds spread to countries with better creditor rights; however, either type of spread is uncorrelated with and unexplained by enforcement standards. The data therefore indicate that the loss of insider managerial benefits from UCITS constraints is smaller in countries where legal standards are higher, and this mechanism is a primary determinant of the spread of voluntary protection mechanisms among mutual funds. This central finding holds over a wide range of robustness checks and the use of treatment-effect models that account for self selection.","PeriodicalId":374825,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI) (Archive)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116977529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Equilibrium of Financial Derivative Markets and Compensating Variations Under Portfolio Insurance Constraints","authors":"P. Bertrand, J. Prigent","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2083607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2083607","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the equilibrium of portfolio under insurance constraints on the terminal wealth. We consider a single period economy in which agents search to maximize the expected utilities of their terminal wealths. Both partial and general optimal financial equilibria are determined and analyzed for quite general utility functions and insurance constraints. We introduce also the notion of compensating variation to quantify the monetary loss of not having the true optimal portfolio profile, for the clients and also for the bankers.This paper examines the equilibrium of portfolio under insurance constraints on the terminal wealth. We consider a single period economy in which agents search to maximize the expected utilities of their terminal wealths. Three main classes of financial assets are considered: a riskless asset (usually the bond), a risky asset (the stock) and European options of all strikes (corresponding to financial derivatives). Both partial and general optimal financial equilibria are determined and analyzed for quite general utility functions and insurance constraints. We introduce also the notion of compensating variation to quantify the monetary loss of not having the true optimal portfolio profile, for the clients and also for the bankers.","PeriodicalId":374825,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI) (Archive)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133484985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building Legal Indexes to Explain Recovery Rates: An Analysis of the French and UK Bankruptcy Codes","authors":"Régis Blazy, B. Chopard, Nirjhar Nigam","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2079660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2079660","url":null,"abstract":"We test the characteristics of bankruptcy procedures that are likely to generate recoveries for the creditors. We build 132 original legal indexes accounting for the main functions of bankruptcy law that were highlighted by Hart (2000). Namely, we measure the accessibility of the procedure, their ability to disclose information, the level of protection of the debtor’s assets, the coordination of the claimants and their decision power under bankruptcy, and the sanction of faulty management. We show that the French procedures are more protective of the debtor’s assets and favor more the coordination of claims. In UK, we find strong opposition between the liquidation and the reorganization procedures: the former ones prioritize the protection of secured claims, while unsecured creditors benefit from higher decision power under the latter ones. We then use an original database of 833 French and UK bankrupt SMEs to measure the recovery rates that are generated by each procedure. We first isolate the bankruptcy rules that are associated to higher recovery rates: namely, accessibility of the procedure, protection of the debtor’s assets, protection and coordination of claims. On the contrary, information disclosure under bankruptcy has negative impact on total recoveries, probably due to the breach in confidentiality.","PeriodicalId":374825,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI) (Archive)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133940420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}