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This study investigates the relationship between the evolution of real options values and associated financing policies for Belgian companies in the sector of bio-industries. Each firm's situation regarding the relevant types of real options is stylistically represented through a scenario tree....
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, this sensitivity is not reduced, but it increases, when companies receive venture capital. We interpret the results as … evidence of the presence of financing constraints and underinvestment problems in unquoted companies. Venture capital …
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markets, private equity, and venture capital markets. …
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Using panel data for 2,329 Belgian firms observed between 1985 and 1999, this paper aims at getting a better understanding of Belgian firms' investment behavior. Two main and interrelated topics are investigated: the link between financial structure and investment decision, on the one hand, the...
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-employee panel data for Belgium and rely on methodological approaches from both Hellerstein and Neumark (1995) and Bartolucci (2014 …
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This paper analyses to what extent the decision to start exporting may be subject to spillovers of the internationalisation behaviour of other (foreign and domestic) firms. We distinguish between two possible channels: effects on productivity and effects on the perceived level of sunk costs of...
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We investigate the cost of capital in a model with an agency conflict between inside managers and outside shareholders … depends on a parameter representing investor protection. In equilibrium, the marginal cost of capital is a weighted average of …, inside ownership, and the marginal cost of capital. We discuss implications for the determinants of firm size, the …
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This paper presents a comprehensive treatment of the cost-of-capital approach for analyzing the economic impact of tax … policy. This approach has provided an intellectual impetus for reforms of capital income taxation in the United States and …. The cost-of-capital approach presented in this paper shows that important opportunities for tax reform still remain. This …
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This paper investigates whether European banks have capital targets and how deviations from the target impact their … that there are notable asymmetries in banks' reactions to deviations from optimal capital levels. Banks prefer to reshuffle …
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