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This paper examines the impact of different leverage measures on the share price of Cement Sector in Pakistan Stock …
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This paper studies a firmś optimal capital structure in an environment, where the firmś stock price serves as a public signal for its credit worthiness. In equilibrium, equity investors choose how much information to acquire privately, which induces a positive relation between the amount of...
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Pakistan. Book Value per Share, Earning per Share, Dividend per Share, Gross Domestic Product and Interest Rate are considered … Pakistan Stock Exchange amid the day and age 2007 to 2016. This exploration will underline on working influences and money … benefit of firms of Pakistan relapse demonstrate and spellbinding measurements will be utilized. Our outcomes will empower the …
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We find that equity mispricing impacts the speed at which firms adjust to their target leverage and does so in predictable ways depending on whether the firm is over- or underlevered. For example, firms that are above their target leverage and should therefore issue equity (or retire debt),...
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Hypotheses concerning capital structures are some of the most frequently tested in the financial literature. Authors usually discuss different incentives for the use of leverage. Their views can be broadly classified in two main groups. The proponents of the first argue that leverage increases...
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The October 14, 2008 TARP program mandated a forced issuance of TARP preferred stock by the largest U.S. banks. Soon after, many smaller banks were not forced but chose to issue TARP preferred stock after being approved for issuance. We investigate the impact of TARP preferred issuance upon...
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This paper shows that during industry downturns, firms experience significantly greater valuation losses when their industry peers' long-term debt is maturing at the time of the shocks. Across a range of tests, the analysis addresses the endogenous determination of peer debt maturity structure....
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This paper analyzes the effect of corporate debt offerings on stock prices. Straight debt offerings have non-positive price effects, while convertible debt offerings have significantly negative effects. Public utility mortgage (non-convertible) bond offerings have marginally negative effects,...
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This study focuses on investigating the existence of optimal capital structure for firms listed in KOSPI stock market by employing inter- and intra-industry analyses. To date, very little attention seems to be paid to this subject in modern finance, considering that a firm's value is increases...
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In the capital structure literature, speed of adjustment (SOA) estimates are similar whether book or market leverage is used. This robustness is suspect, given the survey evidence that firms target their book leverage and the empirical evidence that they don't issue securities to offset market...
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