Effi Benmelech

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Papers

• Do Liquidation Values Affect Financial Contracts? Evidence from Commercial Loan Contracts and Zoning Regulation, (with Mark J. Garmaise and Tobias J. Moskowitz), Quarterly Journal of Economics (2005), 120(3) 1121-1154.

   

• Human Capital and the Productivity of Suicide Bombers (with Claude Berrebi), Journal of Economic Perspectives, (2007), 21(3) 223-238. (Copyright, 2007, American Economic Association). This paper is a shorter version of NBER Working Paper 12910: Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and the Productivity of Suicide Bombers.

   

• Asset Salability and Debt Maturity: Evidence from 19th Century American Railroads, Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming.

   

• Collateral Pricing (with Nittai Bergman), Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming.

   

• Liquidation Values and the Credibility of Financial Contract Renegotiation: Evidence from U.S. Airlines (with Nittai Bergman), Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming.

   

  Working Papers

  • The Political Economy of Financial Regulation: Evidence from U.S. Usury Laws in the 19th Century (with Tobias J. Moskowitz), Feb 2008.

   

  • Managerial Entrenchment and Debt Maturity: Theory and Evidence, August 2006.

   

  • Stock Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives (with Eugene Kandel and Pietro Veronesi), December 2007.

   

  • Vintage Capital and Creditor Protection (with Nittai Bergman), February 2008.

   

  • The Alchemy of CDO Credit Ratings (with Jennifer Dlugosz), February 2008.

   

  • Bankruptcy and the Collateral Channel (with Nittai Bergman), February 2008.

   

  • Soft and Hard Information in Lending: Evidence from Commercial Property Loan Conctracts (with Mark J. Garmaise, Tobias J. Moskowitz, and Jeremy C. Stein), September 2007.
  
  
  

   

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