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The aim of this study is to analyse the impact of corporate financial structure on a firm's export propensity … firm size, the link between firms' export propensity and their financial health and ownership concentration. By means of a … System, this paper provides firm-level evidence for SMEs of a positive link between export propensity and ownership …
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This paper quantifies the relative importance of labor-induced operating leverage at explaining the value premium. I extend a traditional variance decomposition methodology using labor shares to disentangle labor leverage from the value premium and from the value spread and from the variation in...
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We investigate how the level of corporate leverage affects firms' investment response to monetary policy shocks. Based on novel aggregate time series estimates, leverage acts amplifying, whereas in the cross section of firms, higher leverage predicts a muted response to monetary policy. We use a...
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The corporate finance literature documents that managers tend to overinvest into physical assets. A number of theoretical contributions have aimed to explain this stylized fact, most of them focussing on a fundamental agency problem between shareholders and managers. The present paper shows that...
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This paper provides a model-based analysis of special tax rules for corporations that invest in stocks of other corporations. To avoid double taxation the returns from such stock investments (dividends and capital gains) are usually tax-exempted or taxed at a reduced tax rate. This allows for...
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