This paper examines the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), a legal framework intended to increase transparency and accountability of listed companies, on the cost of going public in the US. We expect SOX to increase the direct cost of going public, but decrease the underpricing because of...

Crowdfunding has mostly been used to finance very unique projects. Recently, however, companies have begun using it to finance more traditional products where they compete against other sellers of similar products. Major crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter and Indiegogo, as well as Amazon have...

Verbraucherpolitik kann durch die Bereitstellung glaubwürdiger Informationen den Schutz der Verbraucher vor eigennützigem Verhalten der Unternehmen verbessern, durch den Abbau von Markteintrittsbarrieren die Funktionsfähigkeit des Wettbewerbs sichern und die Etablierung von Innovationen am...

We analyze the role of intermediaries in electronic markets using detailed data of more than 14,000 originated loans on an electronic P2P (peer-to-peer) lending platform. In such an electronic credit market, lenders bid to supply a private loan. Screening of potential borrowers and the...

This study suggests the preponderance of the pecking order theory over the trade-off theory when there are greater problems of information asymmetry, which is more usual in small-sized firms. The results show that debt level has an inverse relationship with non-debt tax shield and direct...

Changing trends in the global economy have reshaped industrial relations due to transformation in the workforce composition, resulting in compulsion on companies to audit their organizational climate, HR practices, process, system, and style of managing this diversified workforce. The rationale...

The research aims to examine the difference between absence and presence life cycle stage in technology information digitalization (TID) as a form of open innovation in reducing information asymmetry. Furthermore, companies with asymmetric information prefer debt over equity. The study collects...

This study seeks to examine the relationship between short-term debt maturity and accruals-based earnings management using a sample of listed firms in Vietnam from 2010-2017. The extant literature remains under-explored on the impact of short-term debt on accruals-based earnings management at...

Using panel data models and two research sub-samples composed of smaller and larger VC-backed, this study seeks to analyze the relationship between investment and internal cash flows. The results indicate that the investment sensitivity to internal cash flows is greater in larger than in the...

This article investigates the determinants of dividend policy on the Casablanca stock exchange. The variables tested were based on the main theories of dividend policy, and the fixed effect model was used to test panel data over a period of 16 years from 2003 to 2018. The eight independent...