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Analysis of the Capital Structure of German Companies with the SSA and SVM
Pohlmann, Tim Fabien - 2007
This thesis presents and compares the performance of two recently developed classification methods namely the Spatial Stagewise Aggregation procedure and Support Vector Machines. Both techniques are convenient for the application to corporate bankruptcy analysis, in terms of calculation of...
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The Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy Law
Wohlschlegel, Ansgar - 2002
Apart from an extensive survey of the literature on the economics of corporate bankruptcy law, this thesis contains three own contributions: First, a model is presented where a firm's manager acquires some private information about whether a firm should be liquidated or stay in business....
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Leistungsbündel als Angebotsform für konsumentengerichtete Technologiegüter - Konzept, Wirkungen und Ziele
Weber, Roland - 2005
Die Bedeutung hochtechnologischer Konsumgüter nimmt immer mehr zu. Viele dieser Konsumgüter weisen einen hohen Anteil innovativer Technologien auf und verändern mit neuen Funktionalitäten die Lebens- und Umgangsgewohnheiten der Konsumenten. Zwischen den Potenzialen der Technologie und der...
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Einfluss von Overconfidence und Optimismus von Finanzvorständen auf ihre Kapitalstrukturentscheidungen
Kasch, Michael Georg - 2008
Kapitalstruktur wählen. Allerdings ist die Kapitalstrukturtheorie trotz intensiver Forschung über fast fünf Jahrzehnte immer noch … Manager im Detail dabei welchen Einfluss auf die Entscheidungen für die Kapitalstruktur haben, ist bisher allerdings empirisch … der Kapitalstruktur eine relevante Rolle spielen. Im Speziellen kann durch die Berücksichtigung der Overconfidence des …
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Three Essays on Structural Credit Risk Modelling
Zahariev, Radoslav - 2010
Kapitalstruktur, die dynamische Steuerung des Unternehmensrisikos und die nicht normale Verteilung der Firmenrendite. Im zweiten …
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The Twin Agency Problems in Corporate Finance - On the basis of Stulz's theory
Du, Juan - 2009
Financial globalization is an inherent feature of today’s economies. But the positive impact of financial globalization has been limited and some puzzling evidence has been found recently. To explain these puzzles, Stulz argued that finance is critically affected by Twin Agency Problems:...
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Determinants of capital structure for A-REITs
Chikolwa, Bwembya - 2009
Using panel data methodology, the determinants of capital structure in 34 Australia listed property trusts (A-REITs) are investigated for the period 2003-2008. Empirical results reveal that profitability, growth opportunity, and operational risk are negatively related to leverage while size is...
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ESSAYS IN DYNAMIC CORPORATE FINANCE
Michaux, Michael - 2010
My dissertation aims at understanding the financing and investment decisions of firms. It contains two chapters.Chapter One studies the currency composition of debt for firms in emerging economies. Using a dataset of traded Mexican firms, I document two stylized facts about firms in the...
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Cash-Flow Risks, Financial Leverage and the Cross Section of Equity Returns
Maia, Marcelo V - 2010
What is the cross-sectional relationship between financial leverage and expected equity returns? How is the empirical relationship associated with firm's financial decisions? This dissertation investigates the potential explanations for the flatness relation between financial leverage and...
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The Levered Equity Risk Premium and Credit Spreads: A Unified Framework
Bhamra, Harjoat S.; Kuehn, Lars-Alexander; Strebulaev, … - 2009
We embed a structural model of credit risk inside a dynamic continuous-time consumption-based asset pricing model, which allows us to price equity and corporate debt in a unified framework. Our key economic assumptions are that the first and second moments of earnings and consumption growth...
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