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Assuming an alternative corporate governance paradigm that puts employees in the firm's governance structures, as well as understanding their objective functions, we investigate capital structure decisions in an employee-governed firm. Examining corporate capital structure decisions in 12...
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This study examines the extent to which individual demographic characteristics of owners influence capital structure decisions. Using the Federal Reserve's 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances, we estimate the joint effects of traditional capital structure determinants and manager age, gender,...
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. Contrary to the prediction of pecking order theory, it is shown that good projects should be financed with equity, to take …
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activity, consistent with free cash flow agency theory. Corporate giving discourages managers from pursuing external financing …
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This essay on Corporations is a chapter in an upcoming volume on economic theology edited by Stefan Schwarzkopf.The secular study of corporations has long regularly focused on three sets of concerns: (1) Is the idea of corporate “personhood” only a convenient shorthand for a complex set of...
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This review evaluates the four major theories of corporate financing: (1) the Modigliani–Miller theory of capital …-structure irrelevance, in which firm values and real investment decisions are unaffected by financing; (2) the trade-off theory, in which … financing responds to managers’ personal incentives; and (4) the pecking-order theory, in which financing adapts to mitigate …
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The option to file a lawsuit against an entrepreneur encourages shareholders to fund projects and to retain entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur, at risk of a lawsuit filing, may save cash as a precautionary measure. When cash accumulates and a lawsuit filing does not occur, an entrepreneur increases...
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Modern institutes of the market form new factors of the global economy. Stock exchanges, other institutes of the investment market, financial Internet communications create the integrated pace of world economic system. The companies test direct influence from global information-financial space....
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This paper addresses the following unresolved questions: Why do some firms issue equity instead of debt? Why did most firms retain their cash holdings instead of distributing them as dividends in recent times? How do firms change their financing policies during a period of severe financial...
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The study analyzed the cost effectiveness of a subset of Nigerian listed financial firms and looked at the impact of corporate governance on the subset of listed financial enterprises. Additionally, it evaluated how corporate governance affected how chosen listed financial organizations in...
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