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I show that access to the public debt market is associated with a significant reduction in the level of capital expenditures and takeovers, especially for firms with higher credit risk. Firms accessing the bond market also become less likely to violate debt covenants, reduce the level of payouts...
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This paper provides new evidence on the relationship between internal capital markets and corporate investment by … exploiting an exogenous event and an unique empirical setting. We do so by comparing the investment behavior of Korean business … than non-chaebol firms in the control group in the aftermath of the crisis. This difference in investment behavior does not …
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This study aims to analyze how the company's internal funds and investment opportunities impact the company …’s investment decisions conditional to the financing constraints experienced. We classify companies into three categories based on … financing constraint have a higher investment-cash flow sensitivity than companies with a low financing constraint. We found …
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Mutual fund holdings data reveal a significant impact of mutual funds on the capital expenditures ("CapEx'') of their portfolio companies. Following the shock to mutual fund ownership caused by the 2003 scandal, during which 25 fund families experienced significant outflows of capital, firms...
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Business groups in emerging markets perform better than unaffiliated firms. One explanation is that business groups substitute some functions of missing institutions, for example, enforcing contracts. We investigate this by setting up a model where firms within the business group are connected...
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We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions of stock market listed firms. To do so, we … compare the investment behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms … compared to private firms, public firms invest substantially less and are less responsive to changes in investment …
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Does corporate governance affect the timing of large investment projects? Hazard model estimates suggest strong … shareholder governance may deter managers from pursuing large investments. Controlling for investment opportunities, firms with … strong CEO incentives (high delta (δ)) we find no such timing differences. Finally, these higher investment hazard firms …
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examines the impact of utilizing financial derivative instruments on corporate investment. We document that engaging in … borrowing. Although financial hedging serves as a vehicle for firms to bring their inorganic investment plans to fruition by … facilitating their financing, it also leads to inferior investment choices when conflicts of interest among managers and …
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We propose a new order of financing investments based on the considerations of control and financial constraints in a market with the presence of business groups. We base our analysis on a sample of acquisitions, one of the largest forms of investments, made by India's publicly listed firms from...
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In this paper we examine the effect of financial analysts on the quality of corporate investment decisions. We show …
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