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Showing 1 to 20 of 220 for “"Capital Structure"”.
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Essays in Capital Structure
… critical roles in the determination of corporate capital structures.</p> <p>Chapter 1 estimates firm-specific marginal cost of debt functions for a large panel of companies between 1980 and 2007. The marginal cost curves are identified by exogenous variation in the marginal tax benefits of debt. …
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Two essays on capital structure
This dissertation consists of two essays on capital structure. Essay one, joint with Sheridan Titman, examines how cash flows, investment expenditures and stock price histories affect corporate debt ratios. Consistent with earlier work, we find that these variables have a substantial influence on …
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Capital structure in mixed-use development
… Specific questions were asked about the entire capital structure including equity, construction and permanent debt. 'The thesis contains a background on mixed-use development and its growing importance in the marketplace, discussion of equity and lending fundamentals within commercial real …
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Essays on the Dynamics of Capital Structure
… that posits that firms move towards the optimum capital structure necessitate a joint hypothesis test - whether firms adjust toward target leverage, and whether the proxy used for target leverage is the true target leverage. Prior studies use the time-series mean leverage for each firm, the …
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Optimal capital structure for JSE listed companies
This report details a study of capital structure for JSE listed companies. The study considered historical financial information for JSE listed companies over the period 1987 to 2009 and asked two central questions, with the benefit of hindsight. Firstly, could JSE listed companies have used more …
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Testing capital structure theories : Evidence from REITs
… timing theory are three competing theories of capital structure that have been widely examined in finance literature. But empirical tests of REITs capital structure were limited.This study employs a partial adjustment model of Fama and French (2002) and a market timing model of Baker and …
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Human Capital Specificity and Corporate Capital Structure
… how employing workers with specific human capital affects capital structure decisions by employers. Based on plant-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau, I use the opening of new plants as an exogenous reduction in human capital specificity-- the inability to transfer specific skill sets …
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Essays on Capital Structure and Ownership Structure
… consists of two chapters about how ownership structure affects REITs’ capital structure and property transactions.</p> <p><strong> Chapter 1:</strong> The Influence of Ownership Structure on REITs’ Financing Decisions<br>This essay explores how ownership structure affects REITs’ financing …
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Farmland Price Discounts and Farm Capital Structure
The magnitude of the discounts is similar to those found previously by Featherstone et al. (1993) for financial institutions liquidating farmland, and by Pulvino (1998) for the aircraft industry. Discounts are smaller than those found by Scott (1991) for financially distressed farmers.
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Capital structure and determinants of capital structure, before, during and after the 2008 financial crisis: A South African study
… the effects of 2007/8 financial crisis on capital structure determinants of Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) listed companies in South Africa. Data extracted from INET BFA Expert database was analyzed using regression models on the correlation between the leverage and company size, growth, …
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Stock Return Anomalies, Industry Risk and Capital Structure
My dissertation studies several topics related to the anomalous behavior of stock returns in the time series and cross section. It includes three parts. The first part investigates the relation between leverage and stock returns. First, we provide the first empirical evidence that this relation is …
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An empirical study of Malaysian firms' capital structure
… of the factors affecting a firm's value is its capital structure. The event of the 1997 Asian financial crisis was expected to affect the firms' gearing level as the firms' earnings deteriorated and the capital market collapsed. The main objective of this research is to examine empirically the …
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Research Project Number 1 Determinants of Capital Structure
… the factors that influence decisions on Capital Structure. Therefore, the determinants of the Capital Structure decisions of 100 UK non-financial companies listed in the Financial Times All-Share Index covering the period from 1993 to 2006 has been critically analyzed. The data stream …
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Project Finance Contracting, Transaction Costs and Capital Structure
… mitigate transactional hazards and affect the capital structure of project firms. In an organizational form called project finance, firms create legally-separate and bankruptcy-remote project companies that are responsible for managing over several years or decades a single asset such as a mine …
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A study on capital structure and corporate governance
Capital structure and corporate governance are the important areas that represent salient part of corporate finance research. By studying various aspects of the two areas, this study attempts to deepen our understanding of the two. First, this study provides both a theoretical model and empirical …
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Capital structure and efficiency of Illinois grain farms
… the relationship between efficiency and the capital structure of cash grain farms in Illinois.
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An inter-industry analysis of capital structure policy
Thesis. 1977. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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Cost efficiency and capital structure in farms and cooperatives
… farms which were more specialized, had higher capital costs, and used more equity to finance assets experienced larger increases in efficiency when the use of debt was included in the analysis. The second essay used information on effective tax rates and empirically-estimated risk aversion …
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