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Essays in Corporate Finance
<bold>This dissertation studies the effects of information asymmetry, financial constraints and stock market valuation on the behavior of firms. The first essay explores the role of deal initiation and bidder asymmetry in determining the use of auction and target premia in merges and acquisitions. …
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Essays in Corporate Finance
… dissertation consists of three chapters in corporate finance and private equity. Chapter 1, “Incentives of Private Equity General Partners from Future Fundraising”, co-authored with Ji-Woong Chung, Berk Sensoy and Michael Weisbach, studies the incentives of private equity general partners …
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Essays In Corporate Finance
This dissertation studies two questions in corporate finance: 1) Does knowledge sharing affect innovation? and 2) How do profit sharing and loss sharing affect the choice of underwriting fees and offer prices in the IPO market? In the first chapter, I investigate the impact of knowledge sharing on …
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Essays in Corporate Finance
… contains three essays that explore topics in corporate finance and banking. Chapter 1 studies the role of board's political connections in corporate misconduct. Leveraging a policy shock in China that mandated politically connected directors to resign from corporate boards, I find that …
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Essays on corporate finance
… for each chapter. Chapter 1: The Effect of Corporate Governance on Debtholders: Evidence from CDS Spread Response to Shareholders’ Votes This chapter provides causal estimates in support of the hypothesis that improvements in corporate governance benefit the debtholders. By using the outcome …
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Essays on corporate finance
… contains two chapters that are related with corporate finance and law. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: Do Patent Lawsuits Cause M&A? An Experiment Using Uncertain Lawsuits I investigate whether there exists a causal relation between result of a patent lawsuit …
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Essays in corporate finance
This thesis presents two essays in Corporate Finance. In the first essay, I use the August 2007 crisis episode to gauge the effect of financial contracting on real firm behavior. I identify heterogeneity in financial contracting at the onset of the crisis by exploiting ex-ante variation in …
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Essays in corporate finance
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Corporate finance and microeconomics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Essays in corporate finance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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Essays in corporate finance
This dissertation presents three essays in Corporate Finance. In the first essay, I study managerial incentives in internal capital markets. In particular, I develop a two-tiered agency model to study division managers' incentives within internal capital markets. Division managers try to influence …
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Essays in corporate finance
… of three essays covering topics in empirical corporate finance with an emphasis on banking relationships and its effect on liquidity constraints and business growth. In particular, it investigates the effect of monetary capital and human capital constraints and the role of banking …
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Essays in corporate finance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Essays in Corporate Finance
… in financial economics. They study how firms finance and invest in innovative and intangible assets. The first essay examines the impact of technology spillovers on corporate financing decisions for innovative firms. I find that greater technology spillovers lead to higher leverage in …
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ESSAYS IN EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE
… chapters exploring several aspects of empirical corporate finance with a special focus on founder CEOs and family firms. Chapter 1 focuses on the impact of founder CEO leadership on firm value in publicly listed U.S. firms. Previous research on how founder CEOs affect firm value shows mixed …
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Real options in corporate finance
Aðferð fyrirtækja að til að verðleggja tækifæri til fjárfestinga hefur breyst mikið á undanförnum árum. Með stöðugum breytingum á mörkuðum standa fyrirtæki oftar frammi fyrir áhættumiklum fjárfestingum með óútreiknanlegri útkomu. Þær aðferðir sem þekktastar eru í dag við verðlagningu fjárfestinga …
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Three Essays in Corporate Finance
… enforcement is strong, and in countries where corporate governance standards are high. In the second study (Chapter 3), I investigate whether the impact of competition on firms' financial decisions, as documented by Dasgupta and Žaldokas (2019), is stronger for firms in tradable industries, …
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Three essays in corporate finance
This dissertation consists of three essays in corporate finance. There are five chapters. In the first essay, we find that local gambling preferences have economically meaningful effects on corporate innovation. Using a county's Catholics-to-Protestants ratio as a proxy for local gambling …
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Two Essays on Corporate Finance
… of two essays. The first essay examines how corporate financial policies depend on the properties of future cash flows. In contrast to prior literature, we investigate the role of asymmetries in the distributionof cash flows. We document the relevance of such asymmetries for firms' payout, …
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Three Essays On Corporate Finance
<p>In this dissertation, I study two topics in corporate finance. The first two chapters are under the similar theme in which I focus on the interaction between firms' financial policies and M&A activities. The third chapter considers the efficiency issue of managerial labor markets. First, I …
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