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DO EXTERNAL FUNDS YIELD LOWER RETURNS ? RECENT EVIDENCE FROM EAST ASIAN ECONOMIES

Pal, Sarmistha; Driffield, Nigel - EconWPA - 2003

Using a large firm level panel data set from four Asian countries, this paper compares the returns to various internal and external funds. A novel feature of our analysis is that we distinguish between financially constrained and unconstrained firms and determine selectivity-corrected estimates...

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Analysis of UAE Bank Stocks

Rao, Ananth - EconWPA - 2003

Listing of stocks on the stock exchange offers business firms several advantages such as diversification, liquidity, establishing a value for the firm etc. The present paper analyses stocks of six commercial banks (viz., Dubai Commercial Bank, Emirates Bank International, National Bank of Dubai,...

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Dynamic Adjustment of Corporate Leverage: Is there a lesson to learn from the Recent Asian Crisis?

Driffield, Nigel; Mahambare, Vidya; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

Much of the macro literature on the recent Asian crisis argues that a major cause was over borrowing and over investment encouraged by poor supervision and the resulting moral hazard problem. Surprisingly however there is little firm-level evidence to corroborate this. The present paper examines...

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DO EXTERNAL FUNDS YIELD LOWER RETURNS? RECENT EVIDENCE FROM EAST ASIAN ECONOMIES

Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2005

One of the central explanations of the recent Asian Crisis has been the problem of moral hazard as the source of over-investment and excessive external borrowing. There is however rather limited firm-level empirical evidence to characterise inefficient use of internal and external finances....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118672

Finance, law and growth during transition: a survey

Haas, Ralph de - EconWPA - 2002

This paper surveys the economic literature on the links between finance, law and growth in the Central and Eastern … based on an adequate legal system it can positively contribute to economic growth. However, the financial system in CEE …

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Financial Development, Labor and Market Regulations and Growth

FONSECA, Raquel; GONZALEZ, Natalia UTRERO- - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the importance that market regulation and financial imperfections have on …rm growth. We … a weak financial market (finance effect), the strictness of product and labor market regulations also affect firm growth … (labor effect). In particular, we show that the stricter the rules the more detrimental the influence on growth in sectoral …

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How Ownership Structure Affects Capital Structure and Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from East Asia

Driffield, Nigel; Mahambare, Vidya; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2005

Despite the seminal work of Claessens et al. (2002), who highlighted the role of ownership structure on firm performance in East Asia, the relationship between capital structure and ownership remains much unexplored. This is important, given recent empirical and theoretical work linking capital...

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How Ownership Structure Affects Capital Structure and Firm Performance? Recent Evidence from East Asia

Driffield, Nigel; Mahambare, Vidya; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2005

Despite the seminal work of Claessens et al. (2002), role of ownership structure on capital structure and firm performance in East Asian corporattions remains much unexplored. Within the framework of Bajaj et al. (1998), the present paper empirically examines the effects of a controlling manager...

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Corporate Governance Mechanisms and Firm Financing in India

Kumar, Jayesh - EconWPA - 2005

This study investigates the firm financing patterns in India and the role of corporate governance mechanisms. We use firm-level time series data of nearly 2000 listed companies from 1994 through 2000, to analyze the firm’s corporate financing behavior in connection with its corporate...

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Inflation and Capital Structure

Noguera, Jose - EconWPA - 2001

This essay is a contribution to the empirical literature on the effect of inflation tax on capital structure. A simple empirical model considering the main results of the current theoretical development is studied, using microdata from a number of American corporations.

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