Portfolio diversification of firms' controlling owners influences their firms' capital investment. Empirically, the effect of owners' portfolio diversification on their firms' investment levels is positive for publicly-traded firms and tends to be negative for privately-held ones. These findings...

We construct a comprehensive panel data of 96 publicly traded European utilities over the period 1994-2005 in order to study the relationship between the capital structure of regulated firms, regulated prices, and investments, and examine if and how this interaction is affected by ownership...

We investigate how the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by publicly listed firms in the European Union affects peer private firms. We find that private firms’ capital investment decreases significantly after the IFRS mandate, relative to public firms....

This paper examines the impact of managerial entrenchment on financial flexibility, and financial leverage decisions of small public firms compared to medium and large firms based on market capitalization quartiles. E-index is a proxy for managerial entrenchment, and excess cash is a proxy for...

If a firm invoices a transaction in a foreign currency, a delay of payment between the transaction date and the settlement date exposes the firm to exchange rate risk. In their income statements, firms report such exchange rate gains and losses, signaling their exposure to currency risk. Using...

We document a political cycle in the investment decisions of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) by using the constitutionally mandated election schedule in India as a source of exogenous variation in politicians' incentive to cater to voters. Using a project-level investment database, we find that...

This paper delves further into the link between residual government ownership and corporate investment efficiency in privatized firms in a transitional economy. We use a dataset covering firms listed on the Ho Chi Minh City stock exchange, Vietnam over the period from 2007 to 2015. We find that...

The quality of governance crucially affects corporate outcomes, and may be particularly important for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) not disciplined by market competition forces. We examine the impact of board composition on the performance of companies controlled by public entities in Italy....

This paper examines the determinants of privatization in Chinese rural industry by using data that we collected from Southern China in 1998. By employing several econometric specifications, we find that the probability of a firm being privatized increases with the degree of product market...

Using a large panel of more than 140,000 state-owned enterprises (SOEs), this study examines SOEs' investment behavior surrounding 82 national elections in 25 European countries between 2001 and 2015. We find that SOEs increase their corporate investment by about 29% of the sample average during...