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We investigate the cost of capital in a model with an agency conflict between inside managers and outside shareholders. Inside ownership reflects the classic tradeoff between incentives and risk diversification, and the severity of agency costs depends on a parameter representing investor...
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We investigate the cost of capital in a model with an agency conflict between inside managers and outside shareholders. Inside ownership reflects the classic tradeoff between incentives and risk diversification, and the severity of agency costs depends on a parameter representing investor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136994
capitalization, exploration investment and discoveries. To explain and quantify these four effects, we use an analytical model of … investment in exploration capital with intertemporal adjustment costs, depletion of reserves and market capitalization, and …
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We explore one specific channel through which finance promotes growth: the allocation of capital. Using international industrial data, we find that countries with developed financial markets invest more in growing industries, and pull out more funds of declining ones. Most interestingly, this...
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branch is the theory of irreversible investment under uncertainty, the second the theory of competitive speculation in stocks … investment under uncertainty deals with problems of investment or planning where the investment outlay is irretrievable, once …, investment in inventories occurs because of expectations of future price rises. The effect of inventory speculation is therefore …
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This paper uses data from a large survey of firms across 26 transition countries to examine the determinants of trust in the transition process. We first introduce a new measure of trust between firms: the level of prepayment demanded by suppliers from their customers in advance of delivery....
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, social, and governance (ESG) investment plans. However, dichotomy is found in the literature about how rising ESG practices …
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