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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Creditor Rights"”.
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Creditor rights, entrepreneurship, and productivity
The first essay, Creditor Rights and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Fraudulent Transfer Law, examines entrepreneurship following the adoption of modern-day fraudulent transfer laws in the United States. These laws remove the burden of proof from creditors attempting to claw back funds that were …
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Does Country-Specific Globalization Impact Private Loan Contracts?
… institutional attributes. Using income levels, creditor rights, and property rights as institutional indices, I test the association of country-level factors with the priced and non-priced components of bank loan contracts. I find that globalized firms operating in low income countries, …
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Bank Ownership and Lending Behaviour
… the impact of credit information sharing and creditor rights protection on lending behaviour of banks with different ownership types during normal and crisis periods. In addition to the depth of information sharing index, this study uses the coverage ratio of public and private credit …
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Three Essays on Foreign CEOs
… foreign CEOs who come from countries with better creditor rights take fewer risks than those from poor creditor rights countries. The results show that foreign CEOs have a significant impact on firm risk and corporate policies. The second study exploits the variation in the cultural background of …
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The impact of the European insolvency regulation on lenders, lending decisions, the structuring of transactions and enforcement of security
… to shed light on the issue of how far secured creditor rights are protected in EU cross-border insolvencies by focusing on the perspective and position of English lenders. The main thread throughout is the legal concerns faced by lenders when lending to a company incorporated in England and …
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Empirical Studies in International Entrepreneurial Finance
… is significantly mitigated by excessively strong creditor rights that limit entrepreneurial risk taking. Furthermore, the data indicate that cultural attitudes associated with low risk taking limit the effectiveness of entrepreneurship. The results of this essay also show how different definitions …
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Essays In Corporate Governance
… an even distribution of blockholders' voting rights and with higher control contestability of the largest shareholder. The results also offer new evidence that the value of cash holdings is not monotonic across firms in economies with a good institutional environment. Overall, the results of …
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Two Essays On Cross-Country Differences In Corporate Dividend Policies
… policies between minority shareholders' and creditors' interests to minimize the agency costs of equity and debt. We model this behavior and find strong evidence consistent with the predictions of our model. The dissertation contributes to people's understanding of such major societal issues …
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Essays in microfinance: their capital structure and financial inclusion.
… and firm specific variables include; creditor rights, corruption indicators, governance quality, and MFI characteristics variables such as; size, risk and age. The second analysis utilizes MFI social and financial performance dependent variables, against capital structure variables. …