This paper develops a model of budgeting in hierarchical organizations. Each agent (manager) in the hierarchy receives a budget for a task; based on his own information, the agent assigns tasks and budgets to his subordinates, who, in turn, do the same for their subordinates and so forth. Each...

Over the past 25 years a number of accounting and finance studies have examined the usefulness of accounting data in predicting financial distress. This study adapts the approach of these studies to the task of prediction of chief executive officer (CEO) turnover in large U.S. firms. The results...

In November 1987, USAir Group acquired Piedmont Aviation for $1.6 billion in cash tender offer. Following the acquisition of the two carriers, the new USAir incurred huge operating losses, became the last profitable major airline, sustained a large reduction in its stock price, eliminated its...

The research assesses how the two Big Eight mergers of 1989 affected the market for audit services. A data set of 1,978 firms over a 12-year period is used to test four theories of how the mergers could have affected competition and consumer welfare. The study finds that the mergers reduced the...

Event studies on shareholder wealth effects of American and French takeovers find out that targets clearly gain, and bidders do not lose. We estimate in this study the abnormal returns associated with takeovers in the French market during the period of intense acquisition activity of 1991 - 1997.

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This paper proposes that corporations use callable, convertible bonds to lower the issuance costs of sequential financing. Sequential financing helps control over-investment incentives, that can arise if financing is provided prior to an investment option's maturity, but incurs additional issue...