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profitability. The results suggest that in order to increase profitability managers from Romanian publicly companies could increase … profitability by reducing the number of days cash conversion cycle and, as second result, companies do not hold too much cash. …
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examine the role of business cycles on the working capital–profitability relationship using a sample of Finnish listed … companies over an 18-year period. We find the impact of business cycle on the working capital–profitability relationship is more …
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assesses the impact of this policy on profitability by focusing on the cash conversion cycle, a commonly used measure of … cycle has a relatively stronger (negative) impact on operating profitability for private, compared to public firms. This is …
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. This study investigates the relationship between aggressive/conservative working capital practices and profitability as … 2004-2008. The results indicate a negative relationship between profitability measures and working capital aggressiveness …
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This paper presents the problem of working capital management, profitability and risk represented by working capital … the profitability and risk connected to the liquidity. On the other hand we can expect that the lower the working capital … level and hence the liquidity the higher the profitability and risk., The author decided to test companies listed on the …
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If global capital markets are less than completely integrated, firms can create value for investors by issuing equity in foreign markets. We develop a theoretical framework to show that the offer price for an issuer's shares is increased by wider distribution of the shares in multiple markets....
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We analyze expected returns and volatility in 135 different markets. We argue that country credit risk is a proxy for the ex-ante risk exposure of, particularly, segmented developing countries. We fit a time-series cross-sectional regression using data on the 47 countries which have equity...
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Most long-run empirical research on the historical risk premium has focused on the experience of the United States. However, the United States has been a remarkably successful economy, making it unlikely that the US risk premium is representative. Until recently, evidence on the risk premium in...
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We provide empirical evidence that strong dismissal laws appear to have a positive effect on the innovative pursuits of firms and their employees. Stringent labor laws provide firms a commitment device to not punish short-run failures and thereby spur their employees to pursue value-enhancing...
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This research utilizes data from the World Bank Investment Climate Survey to examine the use of external capital for almost 70,000 small and medium-sized firms in 103 developing and developed countries. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we find that most small firms in even the poorest countries...
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