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Three essays on earnings management, financial irregularities, and capital structure
Pungaliya, Raunaq Sushil - 2010
. The static tradeoff theory of capital structure hypothesizes that firms have a target leverage which optimizes firm value … rate firms as if their capital structure decisions are consistent with the tradeoff theory.In the third and final essay, I …
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Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing
Gulati, Mitu; Buchheit, Lee C. - 2010
There are three reasons for attempting to reach a common understanding of the responsibilities of sovereign borrowers and their lenders. First, the flow of capital to sovereign debtors is exceptionally important to the world economy. Industrialized countries rely on it to finance their budget...
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Zur Eigenkapitalsituation von Personenhandelsgesellschaften in der IFRS-Rechnungslegung
Weidenhammer, Simon - 2007
h.M. im Fremdkapital auszuweisen. Die Fremdkapitalklassifikation hat (schwerwiegende) Folgen für den Einzelabschluss der …
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Die Regelungen zur Gesellschafter-Fremdfinanzierung im internationalen Vergleich
Maier, Nina - 2006
Die Gesellschafter-Fremdfinanzierung wird sowohl in Deutschland also auch europaweit sowie international zunehmend restriktiv geregelt mit der Folge, dass die steuerlichen Regelungen zur Gesellschafter-Fremdfinanzierung (Thin Capitalization Rules) die Finanzierungsentscheidung multinationaler...
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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons
Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993
"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...
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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis
Dudley, Dean - 1993
"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
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Salience and Its Implications for Common-Pool Resource Management in Scotland: A Tragedy of a Different Kind?
Brown, Katrina Myrvang; Slee, Bill - 2002
"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …
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Institutional Equilibrium and Equilibrium Institutions
Shepsle, Kenneth A. - 1983
"This theme paper focuses on political institutions and their effects on social choice. Institutions are argued to play a mediating rolebetween the preferences of individuals and social choices. In addition to playing an endogenous role in molding and channeling preferences, institutions...
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