In this paper, we investigate whether Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), with readily pledgable Government assets, reduce the underinvestment problems faced by private sector firms in emerging markets. We analyse investment-cash flow sensitivity and its determinants for the partnering private...

The corporate finance literature argues that overconfident managers tend to hold less cash, and this leads to a significant deviation from optimal cash levels. We analyse the impact of executive overconfidence on the corporate cash holdings of listed Vietnamese firms. To quantify managerial...

Truthfulness in accounting creates a significant concern for academics, practitioners, regulators, and the press. This study investigates the influence of the Board of Directors (BOD) characteristics on the truthfulness of accounting reports. The research uses quantitative methods to test...

We investigate whether busy boards add more value to standalone firms compared to business group affiliated firms in India – an economy plagued with significant institutional voids. Using board composition data of the top 500 Indian firms spanning the period 2003 to 2006, we find that firm...

We present an asymmetric information model to examine private placements issued to owner-managers. Our main conclusion is that allowing private placements to insiders can mitigate, if not eliminate, the underinvestment problem. Our model predicts that announcement period returns for private...

We present an asymmetric information model to examine private placements issued to owner-managers. Our main conclusion is that allowing private placements to insiders can mitigate, if not eliminate, the underinvestment problem. Our model predicts that announcement period returns for private...

We present an extension of the Myers and Majluf (1984) model to examine private placements issued to owner-managers. Our main conclusion is that allowing private placements to insiders can mitigate, if not eliminate, the underinvestment problem. Our model predicts that announcement period...

This paper's aim is two-fold. First, to investigate whether regulatory intervention, to improve insider trading transparency, leads to higher information production. Second, to understand how market imperfections can distort uniform impact expected out of regulatory intervention. We use Indian...

We present an asymmetric information model to examine private placements issued to owner-managers. Our main conclusion is that allowing private placements to insiders can mit- igate, if not eliminate, the underinvestment problem. Our model predicts that announcement period returns for private...