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Financing Losers in Competitive Markets

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  • Abel Andrew B.
  • Mailath George J.

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Project with negative expected value cannot obtain financing in competitive capital markets if all potential investors are risk neutral and have identical beliefs about the distribution of the project’s net revenue. We present a series of examples with heterogeneous beliefs in which it is possible for a project to obtain financing even though all investors in the project believe, conditional on the project being undertaken, that the project has a negative expected value. An important feature of the examples is that the differences in beliefs are due only to differences in information, and are not simply arbitrary unexplained differences in opinions.
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  • Abel Andrew B. & Mailath George J., 1994. "Financing Losers in Competitive Markets," Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, vol. 3(2), pages 139-165, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jfinin:v:3:y:1994:i:2:p:139-165
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    1. Onur Bayar & Thomas J. Chemmanur & Mark H. Liu, 2015. "A Theory of Capital Structure, Price Impact, and Long-Run Stock Returns under Heterogeneous Beliefs," The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 4(2), pages 258-320.
    2. Bayar, Onur & Chemmanur, Thomas J. & Liu, Mark H., 2011. "A theory of equity carve-outs and negative stub values under heterogeneous beliefs," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 100(3), pages 616-638, June.

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