The creation of an optimal financial structure of the invested capital will allow the act of minimizing the balanced medium cost of the capital and implicitly the act of maximizing the enterprise value. As a result, there exists a interdependence between the capitals’ costs – financial...

Through this paper we want to identify which are the main factors that influence the company's financing decision. And from all the factors we will analyze the cost of capital. We would like to see what role plays the cost of the capital in fundamenting the financing decision and what are the...

One of the important consequences to be drawn from the course of the financial crisis up to now is the insight that more attention must be paid in the future to the factors of liquidity, liquidity management and liquidity protection. That holds true for the protection of the stability of an...

(VF)Dans cet article, nous suggérons que les dirigeants disposent de deux leviers d’influence pour obtenir un design de rémunération plus avantageux : leur capital social et la structure de leur conseil d’administration. L’effet de ces deux sources d’influence sur le design de...

(VF)L’exigence d’informations de gestion et leur utilisation par le capital investisseur (CI) sont appréciées grâce à une étude qualitative. Le CI, investisseur actif et soucieux de la rentabilité de son placement, peut être intéressé par une information traditionnellement...

Trade credit arises from delayed payments between firms. It is not easy to identify its determinants since they are connected to organisational,technical, commercial and financial factors.In this paper we empirically examine the determinants of the usage of trade credit by Italian industrial...

This paper investigates whether observed executive compensation contracts are designed to provide risk-taking incentives in addition to effort incentives. We develop a stylized principal-agent model that captures the interdependence between firm risk and managerial incentives. We calibrate the...

The survey findings indicate the existence of gap between theory and practice of capital budgeting. Standard appraisal methods have shown a wider project value discrepancy, which is beyond and above the contingency limit. In addition, the research has found the growing trend in the use of value...

Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

Certain types of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities can generate an ‘insurance-like’ benefit for firms (Godfrey, 2005). Thus far, this risk management hypothesis has been verified for the effects of firm-specific negative events. We argue that this insurance-like benefit of...