This paper examines capital structure decisions as a strategic device to mitigate overinvestment problems. The analysis is based on a two-tiered approach, including agency problems between shareholders and the CEO (firm-level), and between the CEO and international executives (intra-firm level)....

Using a large panel of firms across the world from 1991-2006, we show that the median foreign firm has lower idiosyncratic risk than a comparable U.S. firm. Country characteristics help explain variation in the level of idiosyncratic risk, but less so than firm characteristics. Idiosyncratic...

Using a large panel of firms across the world from 1991-2006, we show that the median foreign firm has lower idiosyncratic risk than a comparable U.S. firm. Country characteristics help explain variation in the level of idiosyncratic risk, but less so than firm characteristics. Idiosyncratic...

Using data from a survey conducted by the World Bank in China, this paper shows that foreign ownership enhances firm productivity. We also find that only equity ownership from foreign firms can have such a positive impact, but not ownership from foreign institutional investors, banks, or...

The study extends the corporate finance and taxation literature by analyzing the existence and convergence towards a regression based target capital structure of newly acquired subsidiaries, private and public ones, in an international context. The pre-merger deviation of the new subsidiary's...

This article uses the recent developments in the econometrics of non-stationary dynamic panels to reassess the relationship between external and internal performance measures of the firm. The test of Im, Pesaran and Shin (2003) and the test of Pedroni (2004) were applied on a sample of 420 U.S....

In the literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR) the origin of the equity is seen as one the drivers of CSR. There is evidence of multinational corporations stimulating diffusion of CSR practices in a few emerging economies. There are no similar studies focusing on the Polish economy....

This paper uses a unique micro-level data-set on Chinese firms to test for the existence of a "political-pecking order" in the allocation of credit. Our findings are threefold. Firstly, private Chinese firms are credit constrained while State-owned firms and foreign-owned firms in China are not;...

In the present environment of cut-throat competition, almost all the business firms have no other option but cutting the cost of operations in order to be competitive as well as financially healthy. So, like other aspects of financial management, working capital management must have a...