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This paper addresses whether adopting good governance standards alleviates constraints on financing investment via … governance has a positive and significant impact on fixed investment. However, my findings indicate that for oligarch-owned firms … their governance might have a more significant effect on their fixed investment. Secondly, the absence of investment …
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We develop a model of investment with financial constraints and use it to investigate the relation between investment … between q and investment, relative to the frictionless benchmark. We present a calibrated version of the model, which, due to … this effect, generate realistic correlations between investment, q, and cash flow …
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How does improvement in corporate governance impact firms' financing policies and investment behavior? Using a reform …
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We investigate and find out the inner differences between stand-alone firms and those participating to Productive Chain Networks (PCNs) as far as ownership and corporate governance characteristics are concerned. PCNs are typical Italian economic realities made of small and medium enterprises...
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This paper investigates the impact of pyramid ownership structure and multiple controlling shareholders on firm leverage. Pyramids, having at least one controlling shareholder and a subsidiary, rely significantly more on debt financing than non-pyramid firms. Moreover, higher leverage is...
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This study reports the results of a survey among 80 CFOs in Kuwaiti listed firms on current corporate finance practices namely, capital budgeting, costs of capital, capital structure, and dividend policy. This paper analyses specifically the survey responses according to the firm's attributes...
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subsequent decrease in real investment precisely in firms that invest too much. In support of the monitoring hypothesis, we show … influence on investment. We address the potential problem of endogeneity using the inclusion of a firm to the S&P 500 Index as …
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Our research tests the difference in investment efficiency between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms and … then evaluates the effect of privatisation and equitisation policies on the investment efficiency of former state owned … spending. We find no evidence of investment spending being linked to marginal returns by SOEs across all sectors and size …
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constraints, measured by the sensitivity of investment to cash flow. We develop two original corporate governance indices based on … standard investment regressions where the cash flow variable is interacted with our corporate governance indices and variables … of investment, particularly in firms with an outside controlling owner and in firms with low managerial ownership. In …
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the last global financial crisis on the firms´ investment, considering its dependence of bank debt of institutions that …
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