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Debt capacity creates financial flexibility and collateral-based debt capacity is the least sensitive to cash flow … effects of financial flexibility on firms' cash policies. We find strong evidence that increases in debt capacity lead to …
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The main aim of the paper is to highlight the relation between flexibility and vertical integration. To this purpose … dynamic uncertain environment. The enterprise we model enjoys flexibility since it can switch from a certain amount of … produce all inputs even when it buys them in the market. This sort of flexibility makes for results which are somehow contrary …
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This paper presents a tractable model of a firm that chooses both the scale and timing of its investment. The value-maximizing investment policy is lumpy, and sensitivity analysis shows that greater demand volatility is associated with the firm choosing to invest in larger increments, less...
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This paper refers to the conceptualizations of strategic flexibility, real options, and human resource (HR) options to … build a model for valuing future-oriented and organizational flexibility-enhancing aspects of training. By adopting an …
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We study the role of financial flexibility on COVID-19 employment actions. Using daily data from March through May 2020 … flexibility attenuates these pandemic effects, reducing the likelihood of workforce reductions by almost half. The role of … financial flexibility is greatest in firms with better governance, a more asymmetric cost structure, and better pre …
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financial flexibility can affect company investment. Low leverage is defined according to deviations from target which are …
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We examine the effectiveness of the "Comply or Explain" approach to corporate governance in the UK. Using a unique database of 245 non-financial companies for the period 1998-2004, we find an increasing trend of compliance with the Combined Code, but a frequent use of standard explanations in...
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The frequency with which firms adjust output prices helps explain persistent differences in capital structure across firms. Unconditionally, the most exible-price firms have a 19% higher long-term leverage ratio than the most sticky-price firms, controlling for known determinants of capital...
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