This dissertation consists of two essays on corporate finance. Essay one examines whether corporate governance affects firm performance after capital investments. I find that among firms with weak corporate governance, those with high abnormal capital investments have significantly lower stock...

"The book is aimed at the relative newcomer to the subject in that it does not make many assumptions about the prior knowledge of the reader and does not develop the theoretical aspects beyond the level needed to provide the reader with the necessary understanding to apply the concepts in...