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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Corporate Investment"”.
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Integration and corporate investment
… processes on internal resource allocation and corporate investment. In the first chapter, I develop an equilibrium model of internal competition for corporate resources and show that managers of integrated firms exaggerate the quality of their projects to get funding. Moreover, I show that the …
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Essays On Corporate Investment Dynamics
… that the performance of venture capital (VC) investments load positively on shocks to aggregate return volatility. I document this novel source of risk at the asset-class, fund, and portfolio-company levels. The positive relation between VC performance and volatility is driven by the …
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Corporate Investment Decisions and Financial Planning
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The availability of credit and corporate investment.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1968. Ph.D.
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Essays on Market Conditions and Corporate Investment Decisions
… cycle, and financial regulations -- affect corporate investment decisions in firms, and the impact of these decisions on corporate performance. In Chapter 1, I document evidence that belief dispersion affects corporate investment allocation. When investors disagree with each other on …
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The influence of the stock market on corporate investment
This paper investigates how corporate investment is influenced by the non-fundamental component of stock prices. Previous research conducted has found that investment is sensitive to equity mispricing where both the stock is undervalued and the firm is dependent on equity. Under these conditions …
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The Effects of Taxation on Corporate Investment and Financial Policy
The effects of taxation on a firm's investment decisions have long been debated. This study investigates several approaches to the analysis of this subject. One area of focus is the analysis of investment policy in the presence of a legal constraint on financial policy. It has been argued …
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Optimal corporate investment and financing policies with time-varying investment opportunities
… propose a model (the BCW model) of dynamic corporate investment, financing, and risk management for a financially constrained firm. In the BCW model, corporate risk management is a combination of internal liquidity management, financial hedging, investment, and payout decisions. However, …
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Inflation, Taxation and Corporate Investment in the U.S. During the Great Inflation
U.S. corporate taxation is not neutral to inflation. Two of its features – historical cost depreciation and FIFO inventory accounting – are expected to lower real after-tax corporate cash flows and, thereby, make investment less attractive when expected inflation is elevated. Using Compustat data …
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Essays on Aggregate Liquidity and Corporate Events
… stream of theoretical and empirical research in corporate finance reveals that corporate investment and financing activities in capital markets occur in waves through time, which are accompanied with many abnormal phenomena surrounding and after the announcement of events. Motivated by existing …
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Studies in Income, Investment, and Stock Returns: The Permanent Income Hypothesis and the Overinvestment Puzzle
… sales drive earnings; increased earnings drive investment; and increased investment drives higher stock returns. In this dissertation, I studied the relationship of sales income, firm investment increase and stock returns. The first paper, titled "Permanent Income and Investment", investigates …
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The Financialization of the Business Enterprise
… studies the diffusion of agency theory into corporate practice as an example of how theory can simultaneously be impacted by and have an impact on the world. The third chapter provides a review of the literature and recent trends on the relationship between institutional ownership and …
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Three essays in corporate finance
… measures of the horizons and values of corporate investment, I find that in response to an increase in long-term institutional ownership firms reallocate their capital toward divisions with long product life-cycle and high innovation value, which leads to longer corporate investment …
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Financial Crisis and the Supply of Corporate Credit
… the role this relationship has in determining corporate investment and economic activity. The first essay studies the supply of credit during the recent financial crisis. It shows that distress in the banking sector led to bank credit rationing, which a portion of nonfinancial borrowers …
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The Effect of IFRS Adoption on the Predictive Ability of Aggregate Accruals for Economic Growth
… accruals to better predict a component of GDP (corporate profits) and factors related to GDP change (change in corporate investment and unemployment rate). The results are more pronounced for adopting countries with greater differences between local accounting standards and IFRS and for adopting …
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The role of corporate social investment in supporting early childhood development in South Africa
This research study, The Role of Corporate Social Investment in Supporting Early Childhood Development in South Africa, explored the role of and the degree to which, corporate social investment (CSI) initiatives in South Africa support early childhood development (ECD). Trends of CSI expenditure in …
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Essays in applied macroeconomics
… and economic growth through the lens of corporate investment and entry and exit decisions. The decisions made in response to different firm-level frictions and specific features of sectors can induce different types of market failures. Understanding the macroeconomic consequences of …
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