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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Assets in place"”.
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Voluntary formation of audit committees and their practices : an Australian study
The study has examined the determinants for the voluntary formation of audit committees and analysed their practices using the annual reports for the financial year 2004. The sample size was obtained from the Connect 4 database of companies. Using Agency theory, the study hypothesized that …
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The dividend initiation decision : theory and evidence
… payout policy that endogenizes a firm's dividend initiation decision, and its extreme reluctance to subsequently cut dividends in a sequential equilibrium. After payment of dividends, all excess cash is disgorged via stock repurchases that elicit no price reactions. The theoretical model generates …
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Essays in capital markets
In the first chapter, I provide evidence that investment-specific technological change is a source of systematic risk. In contrast to neutral productivity shocks, the economy needs to invest to realize the benefits of innovations in investment technology. A positive shock to investment technology …
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Three Essays in Financial Economics
This dissertation contains three chapters concerned with questions in empirical and theoretical asset pricing. This first chapter, Intangible Investment, Displacement Risk, and the Value Discount, explores how the composition of assets in place and growth opportunities affect risk premia. Firms …
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Three essays in empirical finance
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Essays in financial economics
In the first chapter, I examine how financial constraints affect asset allocation, and consequently productivity and asset values. Using a unique dataset of agricultural outcomes, I explore how farmers respond to exogenous cash inflows that are caused by an expansion of hydraulic fracturing …
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Exploring the aggregate, mandatory and voluntary financial disclosure behaviour under a new regulatory environment : the case of Jordan
The scope of the study is to investigate the disclosure behaviour in Jordan after important changes in the economic and accounting regulations. The Securities Law No. 23 in 1997 was a significant turning point for the Jordanian Capital Market (JCM). The Law restructured JCM and imposed new …