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Finance theory does not provide a comprehensive framework for explaining risk management within the imperfect financial … corporate hedging: equity value maximising strategies and strategies determined by managerial risk aversion. The first category … distress and costs of external finance or to replace home-made hedging by shareholders. The second category considers that …
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Finance theory does not provide a comprehensive framework for explaining risk management within the imperfect financial … corporate hedging: equity value maximising strategies and strategies determined by managerial risk aversion. The first category … distress and costs of external finance or to replace home-made hedging by shareholders. The second category considers that …
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Firms significantly reduce their investment in response to non-fundamental drops in the stock price of their product-market peers. We argue that this result arises because of managers' limited ability to filter out the noise in stock prices when using them as signals about their investment...
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I collect 1,186 reported estimates of long-run value creation from 49 studies and present the first meta-analysis of the literature on shareholder activism and its effect on firm value in the longrun. This synthesis is necessary because shareholder activism is increasing over time and across...
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"A firm's termination leads to bankruptcy costs. This may create an incentive for outside stakeholders or the firm's debtholders to bail out the firm as bankruptcy looms. Because of this implicit guarantee, firm shareholders have an incentive to increase volatility in order to exploit the...
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Financial leverage increases the expected return on equity. We show that this leverage effect is not only irrelevant for shareholders' present wealth but also for the return on their investments. This result is straightforward if we do not only look at the return on equity but at the return on...
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