The purpose of this research is to analyze the impact of capital structure to firm value through profitability as intervening variable at manufacturing company in Indonesia Stock Exchange. Population from this research is all manufacturing company which listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange, at a...

This thesis consists of three empirical studies on the economics of organization using novel data on organizations for analysis.Chapter 1 uses the longitudinal and nationally representative data from Statistics Canada's Workplace and Employee Survey to examine the distinct effects of Information...

Essays in Empirical Finance: Evaluating Risk in FinancialMarketsBy Alysa V. ShcherbakovaThis dissertation is comprised of two parts, each addressing animportant type of financial risk. The first part is composed of anessay discussing Market Risk. This essay examines a causalrelationship between...

Efficiency, Leverage and Exit: The Role of Information Asymmetry in Concentrated Industries This paper develops a real options model of imperfect competition with asymmetric information that analyzes firms' exit decisions. Optimal exit decision is linked to firm characteristics such as financial...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, 2009.

This thesis employs data from 34,222 firms in 47 countries from 1987 to 2009, which corresponds to 248,156 firm year observations. Inspired by recent stock price crash risk studies, this thesis differentiates stock price crash risk from traditional stock price risk in explaining capital...

The main purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of the corporate choice between different forms of debt financing. By analyzing the most comprehensive sample of U.S. corporate debt issues to date, I find that firms that issue 144A debt have significantly lower credit quality and...

This empirical study examines the capital structure decisions of developing countries through a case study of Indian corporate sector by classifying the capital structure of 298 out of top 500 private sector manufacturing firms selected on the basis of sales turnover for the year 2004-2005 which...

Capital structure is very important, especially the decision which concern with this problem, because the profitability of a company is directly affected by such decision. The successful choice and use of capital is one of the key components of the enterprises financial strategy. This means that...

This empirical study examines the capital structure decisions of developing countries through a case study of Indian corporate sector by classifying the capital structure of 298 out of top 500 private sector manufacturing firms selected on the basis of sales turnover for the year 2004-2005 which...