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Myers, Stewart C. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Finance

This review evaluates the four major theories of corporate financing: (1) the Modigliani-Miller theory of capital ….Further progress in understanding corporate financing decisions will require a deeper understanding of agency issues when value …

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Agency, information and corporate investment

Stein, Jeremy C. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Finance

This essay surveys the body of research that asks how the efficiency of corporate investment is influenced by problems …

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Payout policy

Allen, Franklin; Michaely, Roni - In: Handbook of the Economics of Finance

importance to corporate finance and asset pricing. It is important to understand the degree to which investor taxes are impounded …

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Corporate governance and control

Becht, Marco; Bolton, Patrick; Roell, Ailsa - In: Handbook of the Economics of Finance

Corporate governance is concerned with the resolution of collective action problems among dispersed investors and the … reconciliation of conflicts of interest between various corporate claimholders. In this survey we review the theoretical and … empirical research on the main mechanisms of corporate control, discuss the main legal and regulatory institutions in different …

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Investment banking and securities issuance

Ritter, Jay R. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Finance

are low. When examining a large class of corporate financing activities, including equity offerings, convertible bond …. Only recently have papers begun to focus on the corporate financing implications if firms face variations in the cost of …

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Market microstructure

Stoll, Hans R. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Finance

Market microstructure deals with the purest form of financial intermediation -- the trading of a financial asset, such as a stock or a bond. In a trading market, assets are not transformed but are simply transferred from one investor to another. The field of market microstructure studies the...

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Corporate investment policy

Brennan, Michael J. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Finance

This chapter is concerned with the classical applied problem of capital allocation by a corporation whose securities are traded in competitive and frictionless markets. Under reasonable assumptions that are discussed, this amounts to choosing projects whose market value exceeds their cost, so...

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Financial intermediation

Gorton, Gary; Winton, Andrew - In: Handbook of the Economics of Finance

lend to companies that need resources for investment. In contrast, in capital markets investors contract directly with … possible moral hazard problems emanating from deposit insurance and on the roles of bank corporate governance and capital …

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Financial innovation

Tufano, Peter - In: Handbook of the Economics of Finance

Although financial innovation has been an important part of the financial landscape throughout modern economic history, it has received relatively little attention in academia. This essay surveys the existing literature on financial innovation from the disciplines of financial economics,...

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Handbook of the Economics of Finance

Constantinides, G.M. (contributor); Harris, M. (contributor) - Elsevier

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