Fundamentalmente as empresas necessitam de recursos de capital para financiar, por um lado, a sua estrutura, e por outro a sua actividade.O financiamento da actividade será a necessidade de fundo de maneio, ou seja, o valor monetário necessário para financiar o ciclo de negócio. Este valor...

Higher first-year post-issue returns are associated with a significantly higher probability of follow-on equity issuance over the next 5 years. This result holds when we control for pre-issue returns and other factors known to affect the probability of equity issuance. The result is most...

We survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to securities mispricing. The managerial biases approach...

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....

In this paper, we present a literature review and classification scheme for investment cash flow sensitivity under behavioral corporate finance. The former consists of all published articles between 2000 and 2011 in different journals that are appropriate outlets for BCF research. The articles...

We use changes in the value of a firm's real estate assets as an exogenous change in a firm's financing capacity to examine (i) the relation between reporting quality and financing and investment conditional on this change, and (ii) firms' reporting quality responses to the change in financing...

The Modigliani and Miller (MM) propositions provide a foundation for corporate finance theory. Their adoption, however, has led to a dis-engagement of corporate financial management from the humanity of business as well as from corporate strategic management more broadly. As an outcome, the...

I construct a structural model in which firms maximize value conditional on being restricted from issuing equity and unsecured debt. Using GMM estimation, I find that a model with both equity and debt constraints fits better than models without constraints or with only one constraint. The...

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,...

This book presents a new approach to the valuation of capital asset investments and investment decision-making. Starting from simple premises and working logically through three basic elements (capital, income, and cash flow), it guides readers on an interdisciplinary journey through the...