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Empirical evidence suggests that capital structure varies across firms facing different levels of information asymmetry, however, this evidence contradict the prediction of pecking order hypothesis. Although debt capacity constraints offer some explanation for this discrepancy, it fails to...
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The paper develops a model of firm´s investment under uncertainty with financial market imperfections and analyzes the … effects of financial constraints on firm´s investment. Firm´s investment is an increasing function of the firm´s marginal q …, however the investment function is characterized by an upper bound that depends on the firm´s borrowing capabilities. The firm …
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of managerial optimism on corporate investment regarding … often overconfident an effort is made to highlight the effect of this psychological bias on managerial investment decision … - making. Design/methodology/approach: The research methodology is based on the approach that the investment-cash flow …
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just before the crisis reduced their investment rates 8.1 percentage points more than other publicly held firms. We also ….5 percentage points more than other exporters. These estimated reductions in investment are economically very significant …
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considered here may affect the sensitiveness of investment to cash flow. Large firms, stock market listed firms as well as firms …
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This paper uses a large panel of Pakistani non-financial firms over the period 2000-2013 to examine the role of financial constraints in establishing the relationship between cash flow and external financing. The results reveal that there exists a negative and significant relationship between...
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This paper analyses the links between financial constraints and firm export behaviour, at the firm level, by using data on Portuguese manufacturing enterprises. Previous empirical literature has not yet reached a consensus on these subjects and there is a great heterogeneity in measuring...
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this disclosure into the investment decision-making process. Using a database of Saudi listed firms, this study adds to the …
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We investigate the role of financial constraints on firms' exporting behavior, including firms' export decision, export intensity, firms starting to export decision, and exports persistence. Our financial constraints variable is a synthetic variable that summarizes information on different...
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We present a framework and empirical evidence to explain why, on average, 11% of listed firms in China received modified audit opinions (MAOs) between 1992 and 2009. We argue that there are two reasons for this phenomenon: strong earnings management incentives lower firms' financial reporting...
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