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Pascal François
Researcher at HEC Montréal
Publications - 66
Citations - 716
Pascal François is an academic researcher from HEC Montréal. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bankruptcy & Debt. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 60 publications receiving 661 citations.
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Capital structure and asset prices: Some effects of bankruptcy procedures
Pascal François,Erwan Morellec +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the impact of the U.S. bankruptcy procedure on the valuation of corporate securities and capital structure decisions and provide closed-form solutions for corporate debt and equity values when defaulting firms can either liquidate their assets or renegotiate outstanding debt under court protection.
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Capital Structure and Asset Prices: Some Effects of Bankruptcy Procedures
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of U.S. bankruptcy procedures on the valuation of corporate securities and capital structure decisions and provided closed-form solutions for the values of corporate debt and equity when defaulting firms can either liquidate their assets or renegotiate outstanding debt under the Court protection.
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The Agency Structure of Loan Syndicates
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the agency structure of loan syndicates in light of two alternative hypotheses, namely specialization and monitoring, and derive testable implications and test them using the large-scale Dealscan database.
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Credit Spread Changes within Switching Regimes
TL;DR: In this article, a single regime model hides the fact that the explanatory variables take on different loadings across changing patterns in credit spreads by modeling endogenous (rating-specific) regimes for credit spreads.
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The Agency Structure of Loan Syndicates
TL;DR: In this paper, a large sample test on the Dealscan database showed that repeated contracting between the same banks explains the moderate magnitude of monitoring effects, and that co-agents monitor the leader on behalf of syndicate members to mitigate informational asymmetry problems.