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Essays in Capital Structure
Yang, Jie - 2010
The costs and constraints to financing, and the factors that influence them, play critical roles in the determination of corporate capital structures. Chapter 1 estimates firm-specific marginal cost of debt functions for a large panel of companies between 1980 and 2007. The marginal cost curves...
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Mittelstands- und Innovationsfinanzierung in Deutschland : Ergebnisse und Hintergr?nde einer bundesweiten Unternehmensbefragung
Hummel, Detlev - 2011
Die vorliegende Studie analysiert die Ergebnisse einer bundesweiten Unternehmensbefragung zum Finanzierungsverhalten deutscher KMU. Im Fokus stehen die Verf?gbarkeit konkreter Finanzierungsinstrumente f?r KMU und deren Akzeptanz im Mittelstand. Dies soll die derzeitigen M?glichkeiten und Grenzen...
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Financing obstacles and growth : an analysis for euro area non-financial corporations
Coluzzi, Chiara; Ferrando, Annalisa; Martínez … - 2008
This paper investigates whether financial obstacles, and, more generally, financial pressure faced by firms, significantly affect firm growth. For this purpose, we use an unbalanced panel of about 1,000,000 observations for around 155,000 non-financial corporations in five euro area countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530229
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Cash holdings, firm size and access to external finance : evidence for the Euro Area
Martínez Carrascal, Carmen - 2010
This paper investigates the empirical determinants of corporate cash holdings in the euro area as a function of firm size. The results show that there are significant differences in investment in liquid assets for firms of different size. More specifically, liquid assets for smaller firms in the...
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Strategies in Financial Services, the Shareholders and the System Is Bigger and Broader Better?
Walter, Ingo - 2002
, however measured, and the range of activities conducted by them. Is size positively related to total returns to shareholders …? If so, does this involve gains in efficiency or transfers of wealth to shareholders from other constituencies, or maybe … shareholders and customers, or can it work against their interests in ways that may ultimately impede shareholder value as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442335
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Japan's Economy: The Idiosyncratic Recovery Continues
Patrick, Hugh - 2007
challenges that involve divestitures, mergers, and acquisitions. Activist shareholders are playing an increasingly important yet …
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Privatisation in Australia and the western economies in the 1990's: Distributional and political effects of accounting and financial reporting
Gowland, D; Aiken, M - 2009
This article captures the effects of 1990's privatization two decades later and challenges whether the expected outcomes of Government debt reduction, a change in share ownership, reduced union and government intervention, and improved efficiency have been achieved. It also addresses whether the...
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15.997 Advanced Corporate Risk Management, Spring 2007
Parsons, John E.; Obizhaeva, Anna - 2007
Opportunity for group study by graduate students on current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. From the course home page: Course Description This is a course on how corporations make use of the insights and tools of risk management. Most courses on derivatives,...
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The Economic Incentives for Sharing Security Information
Ghose, Anindya; Gal-Or, Esther - 2006
Given that information technology (IT) security has emerged as animportant issue in the last few years, the subject of securityinformation sharing among firms, as a tool to minimize securitybreaches, has gained the interest of practitioners and academics. Topromote the disclosure and sharing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435029
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Price response in multiple item choice: spillover effects of reference price
Kwak, Kyuseop - 2007
In this thesis, we develop a SKU level market basket model and apply the model to investigate cross-category reference price effects. This research extends previous work on the category-level multivariate logit model (Russell and Petersen 2000). Our model is a generalization of the multivariate...
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