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This paper investigates the effect of external financing on earnings management in Vietnam, a bank-dominated economy. Using a sample of 494 listed non-financial firms from 2009 to 2018, we find that external financing is positively related to earnings management, implying that firms have...
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A theory of capital structure in which costs associated with asymmetric information are the sole friction is used to present a new perspective on the standard pecking order theory. In the model, both the amount of debt and the restrictiveness of the associated debt covenants are considered to be...
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We present a tradeoff theory of capital structure in which costs associated with asymmetric information are the sole friction. By considering both the amount of debt as well as the restrictiveness of the associated debt covenants a more complete characterization of debt structure is examined...
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We propose a theory of optimal firm financing given nested information problems of adverse selection and agency cost. We prove that there exists a unique perfect Bayesian equilibrium with novel features: First, three types of optimal contracts arise endogenously, i.e., equity, transparent debt...
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This paper investigates the impact of firm leverage on its investment activities. Especially, the research is conducted in the context of the Vietnamese emerging market, an incomplete market in South East Asia with the existence of inefficient market problems such as information asymmetry and...
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