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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Empirical Corporate Finance"”.
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ESSAYS IN EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE
… of two 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 …
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Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance
This thesis examines three studies related to the effect of information asymmetry on capital structure and cash holdings of firms. Firstly, we examine the funding patterns of large and regular investments by large and small public UK firms. Our main finding is that both size of firm and investment …
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Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance
This dissertation studies empirical corporate finance problems related to financial intermediation. The dissertation is composed of three chapters. The first chapter exploits a natural experiment to quantify how much consumer credit borrowers are willing to pay for a good credit reputation. A …
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Three Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance
… seniority, security, and convertibility. The empirical results suggest that there are three main types of factors that determine these features: First, firm-specific factors such as growth opportunities and cash holdings are related with the various features of issued bonds. Second, the state …
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Three essays in empirical corporate finance
Three essays in empirical corporate finance
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Three essays on empirical corporate finance
This thesis consists of three essays that examine empirical questions in corporate finance and labor markets. In the first essay, I use a matched employer-employee dataset linked with hand-collected data on M&A activity in Brazil to examine how rms reorganize their labor force after takeovers. I …
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Essays in Financial Economics: Empirical Corporate Finance
… competitive industries can benefit from good corporate governance. I analyze the stock market reaction to CEO/chairman consolidation announcements, and find that the market reacts positively to these events if the announcing firm has strong governance within an industry of high product market …
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Essays in empirical corporate finance and banking
… entitled ""The Lift of the Trade Embargo and Corporate Policies: Evidence from the Immigrants' Network"" studies the causal effect of foreign competition on corporate investment, cash holdings, financing and leverage decisions using the lift of the trade embargo against Vietnam as an exogenous …
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Essays in empirical corporate finance and investment
"This dissertation studies empirical corporate finance and investment. In Chapter 1, we utilize big data and machine learning tools to examine the information content of executive social media with regard to applications on forming investment strategies. The 2-4 articles focus on the relationship …
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Four essays in empirical corporate finance and financial markets : social captial, corporate risk-taking, external financing, and financial market development
… of four essays examining a range of topics in empirical corporate finance and financial market. The first essay tests the impact of CEO social capital on corporate risk-taking. Using a large panel of companies from 41 countries, the paper documents a significant positive relationship between …
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Essays in corporate finance
… consists 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 on family business groups, corporate investments, and cash management
… thesis consists of three independent essays in empirical corporate finance. The first essay examines how the business group structures facilitate higher investment rates of group-affiliated firms relative to standalone firms in the face of supply shocks to external financing precipitated by the …
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The real effects of debt relief : evidence from independent school districts in Texas
U.S. school districts face pressing needs for facility improvements, yet limited debt capacity hampers their ability to raise sufficient funding for these projects. I study how capital spending affects educational outcomes in heavily indebted school districts. Using a novel quasi-natural …