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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Asset sales"”.
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Contracting in Direct Asset Sales
… a unique, hand-collected dataset of direct asset sales agreements in the SEC filings, I provide the first large-sample evidence on how contracting mechanisms are used to mitigate information frictions in these important transactions. The conflict of interests is unique because the scarcity …
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Corporate distress in an emerging market : the case of China
… firms. Comparing to the literature, I find that asset restructuring including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and asset sales are more frequently employed. It is the most popular strategy in my sample. In the light of difficulties in officially liquidating economically unviable firms in the …
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Essays on Aggregate Liquidity and Corporate Events
… equity offerings (SEOs), and, finally, corporate asset sales. Liquidity is an important and special asset for firms operating in imperfect capital markets. At aggregate level, corporate holdings of liquidity and the market provision of liquidity play important roles in capital markets, which …
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Essays On Horizontal Divestitures And Product Market Relationships
… product market impact of a sample of horizontal asset sales from 1988 to 2005 on corporate customers, suppliers, and industry rivals. I create a sample of firms that classifies corporate customers, suppliers, and industry competitors of firms proposing horizontal asset sales, and employ this data …
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Essays on Hedge Fund Activism and Family Firm
… from firms with better culture and higher asset sales. Activist-appointed directors also influence corporate culture by promoting outside CEO turnover. Target firms with positive cultural change improve their firm performance. Additionally, employees of target firms perceive their firms’ …
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Essays on the Impact of Antitrust Regulation on Corporate Mergers and Divestitures
… In the second essay, I study the impact of asset sales on the firm's focus level, information asymmetry, and operating performance. I find that following a merger facilitating asset sale the firm becomes more diversified, its information asymmetry increases, and its operating performance …
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Three essays on Native American economic development
… windfall tax preferences and natural resource asset sales the 12 regional corporations lost 80 percent of their cash endowment -- about $380 million -- in business operations between 1973 and 1993. The corporations channeled resources toward investment, but the investment was not productive. …
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Trustworthy and Efficient Blockchain-based E-commerce Model
… technology in digital marketplaces and asset management merely touch upon various application scenarios without establishing a unified platform that ensures trustworthiness and efficiency across the product life cycle. In this thesis, we focus on designing a reliable and efficient …