It’s neccesary an early warning system to predict financial distress firm. Prediction model could be used as early warning system for user of financial ratio such as lender, investor, regulator, auditor, and management in decision making that relevant with likelihood of financial distress for...

This dissertation investigates the effects of firm financial distress on two key firm decision variables: sales prices and inventories. These analyses contribute to the Structure-Conduct-Performance paradigm literature. Specifically, the feedback loop between financial distress, a result of poor...

This dissertation consists of three essays, of which two are related. In the first essay I model the interaction between a franchisor and its franchisees. I examine how a franchisor uses the investment requirements she asks franchisees as a tool to reduce franchisees' underprovision of sales...

This study examines the divide between finance theory and practice by analysing thesignificance of the determinants of capital structure choice among 123 listed firms on the JSE, todetermine whether these firms follow the trade-off theory or the pecking-order theory.Data obtained from...

This dissertation is a collection of three stand-alone research papers containing theoretical and empirical research on household portfolio choice and consumption decision in the life time. Household finance is a new interesting field in financial economics that has attracted a lot of attention...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2010. Major: Economics. Advisor: Narayana R. Kocherlakota. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 81 pages. Ill.(some col.)

This volume was prepared by Julian Dieler while he was working with the Center for Energy, Climate and exhaustible Resources at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. At the latest since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 climate policies are permanently on the international policy...