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Almost all studies on research and development (R&D) activity are based on US and British companies, and most of them show that this activity positively influences both stock returns and corporate value. This empirical study evaluates the effects of R&D on stock returns for a sample of listed...
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We investigate the effect of quality of patents on the market value of firms represented by the Tobin's q. We consider the number of objections as well as the number of citations. We construct the database of patent stock, citation-weighted patent stock and objection-weighted patent stock. Our...
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Using data on Indian listed companies for 2005, the paper examines how firm ownership relates to auditor choice. More specifically, we test several hypotheses about the links between firm ownership, auditor relationships and earnings management. The results indicate that firms having high...
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This paper examines whether research and development (R&D) intensity affects the firm’s financing decisions. We use a sample of European firms in the period 2002-2011. We argue that R&D asset has three fundamentals characteristics that make it different from ordinary investment and constrain...
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Starting an innovation project assumes to state some competitive objectives referring to the allocated budget, time … innovation project development, the risk of unfulfilling the stated competitive objectives referrers to the exceeding the project …’s budget and terms, and also to unfitting in the quality and performance parameters established in the innovation project …
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The most recent crisis prompted regulatory authorities to implement directives prescribing actions to resolve systemic banking crises. Recent findings show that government intervention results in only a small proportion of bank recoveries. This study examines the reasons for this failure and...
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In our paper we analyze the heterogeneity between various business models among systemically important banks in 65 countries over the period of 2000-2012. For the first time, we are able to identify true banking strategies consisting of different combinations of bank asset and funding sources...
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This paper studies the particularities of portfolio selection on the Romanian stock market using the risk-return maximization criteria introduced by Harry Markowitz (1952). We used daily prices for the 36 most liquid companies traded on Bucharest Stock Exchange during January 2010 – March 2012...
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This article investigates the change in operating performance of 115 firms that go public on the French New Market over the period 1996-2000. A significant decline in operating performance subsequent to the Initial Public Offering (IPO) is found. Companies appears to sustain sales growth but not...
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In view of recent corporate scandals, it is argued that corporate governance can learn from public governance. Institutions devised to control and discipline the behaviour of executives in the political sphere can give new insights into how to improve the governance of firms. Some proposal such...
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