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Tim Adam
Researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin
Publications - 41
Citations - 1788
Tim Adam is an academic researcher from Humboldt University of Berlin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hedge (finance) & Cash flow. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 41 publications receiving 1620 citations. Previous affiliations of Tim Adam include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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Hold-Up and the Use of Performance-Sensitive Debt
Tim Adam,Daniel Streitz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, performance-sensitive debt (PSD) is used to reduce hold-up problems in long-term lending relationships and a substitution effect between the use of PSD and the tightness of financial covenants is found.
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Why Do Firms Engage in Selective Hedging? Evidence from the Gold Mining Industry
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a 10-year sample of North American gold mining firms and found no evidence that selective hedging is more prevalent among firms that are believed to possess an information advantage.
Risk Management and the Credit Risk Premium
TL;DR: In this article, the credit risk premium affects firms' optimal hedging strategies and the model predicts that firms that are unlevered, invest little and are exposed to few non-hedgeable risks are the most likely to use linear approximations of the optimal strategy.
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Managerial Optimism and Debt Contract Design: The Case of Syndicated Loans
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the impact of managerial optimism on the inclusion of performance-pricing provisions in syndicated loan contracts (PSD) and find that optimistic managers are more likely to issue PSD, and choose contracts with greater performance-price sensitivity than rational managers.
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Dynamic Risk Management: Evidence from Corporate Hedging Announcements
Vikas Raman,Chitru S. Fernando,Seth A. Hoelscher,Tim Adam,Louis H. Ederington,Veljko Fotak,Robin Grieves,Sridhar Gogineni,Janya Golubeva,Scott C. Linn,Anthony D. May,Marcel Prokopczuk,Avri Ravid,Jesus M. Salas,Clifford W. Smith,Vish Viswanathan,Vahap Bülent Uysal,Pradeep K. Yadav,Yi Zhou +18 more
TL;DR: This article examined the determinants and information content of hedging change announcements by gold mining firms from 1991 to 2013 and found that hedging increases are significantly more likely following negative (positive) gold and equity returns, and cause significant negative reactions in equity prices for both the announcing firm and industry.