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investment of small entrepreneurial and larger managerial firms in different financial regimes that are largely in line with …
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This paper studies the relationship between firm leverage and supplier market structure by examining their joint impacts on bargaining and relation-specific investments. We find that firm leverage decreases with the degree of competition among suppliers. Specifically, leverage decreases with the...
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This paper studies the effects of changes in uncertainty on optimal leverage and investment in a dynamic firm … the larger shocks. Initially deleveraging leads to a drop in investment. Investment recovers as entrepreneurs build up net … optimal leverage and investment dynamics. Financial innovation amplifies the effects of uncertainty shocks …
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This study examines how the effect of uncertainty on capital investment varies between focused firms and conglomerate … frictions, I find that uncertainty, measured by industry-level stock return volatility, has a negative effect on investment … among focused firms but has no statistically significant effect on investment among conglomerate segments. I also show that …
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EBITDA is a commonly-used performance measure for (1) valuation, (2) debt contracting, and (3) executive compensation. The widespread use of EBITDA by stakeholders may induce managers to focus their attention on EBITDA. Since EBITDA excludes various expenses, managers who fixate on EBITDA may...
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We propose a structural model with an optimal switching of diffusion regime which integrates a wide range of investment … spreads of junk bonds decrease up to 10% unless the agency problem gets extremely severe, and those of investment grade bonds …
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We study the impact of the 1933 abrogation of gold clauses on the slow recovery of corporate investment following the … reduced their investment in 1933 and 1934. For these firms, investment recovers quickly following the Supreme Court's 1935 … decision to uphold abrogating gold clauses. In the cross-section of firms, decreases in investment over 1933 and 1934 coincide …
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This study examined the impact of leverage on investment of Pakistani manufacturing firms listed on Karachi Stock … Exchange. To explain the relationship between leverage and investment we get data from the annual reports of manufacturing … is negative relationship between leverage and investment. When leverage increase investment will decrease and vice versa …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the influence of financial system liquidity and corporate leverage on a firm's overinvestment. We posit that when external funds are easily available, as in expansionary monetary periods, debt loses its traditional role as a managerial control mechanism....
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The corporate finance literature documents that managers tend to over-invest in their companies. A number of theoretical contributions have aimed at explaining this stylized fact, most of them focusing on a fundamental agency problem between shareholders and managers. The present paper shows...
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