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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Equity capital"”.
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An analysis of Russian equity capital markets
… It thus takes the view that developing the equity market is an important policy objective for the Russian government. Through a series of interviews, data collection and a review of the literature, it is found that the Russian equity market is rather underdeveloped as measured by its …
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Index revisions, market quality and the cost of equity capital.
… aspects of stock market quality and the cost of equity capital. Our study spans over the period 1986¿2009. Our analyses indicate that the index membership enhances all aspects of liquidity, including trading continuity, trading cost and price impact. We also show that the liquidity premium and …
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Earnings expectations, security valuation, and the cost of equity capital
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Accruals quality, stock returns seasonality and the cost of equity capital
… whether accruals quality should be priced by equity markets, and whether any pricing effect detected is attributable to risk, these questions remain among the more controversial in accounting research. This thesis comprises a brief introduction to theory underpinning the pricing of information …
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Accruals quality, stock returns seasonality and the cost of equity capital
… whether accruals quality should be priced by equity markets, and whether any pricing effect detected is attributable to risk, these questions remain among the more controversial in accounting research. This thesis comprises a brief introduction to theory underpinning the pricing of information …
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Disclosure level and the cost of equity capital : South African evidence
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-109).
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Effects of Leverage and Dividend Policy on the Value of Equity Capital
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The cost of equity capital in a regulatory environment: an international comparison
… applied for by Eskom. Estimating the cost of equity capital is a key element of the tariff determination process. This study therefore aims to evaluate the cost of equity methodologies used by regulators, and to assess whether NERSA's (South Africa) methodology is in line with international …
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Equity capital for affordable housing : a systems view of the housing tax credit industry
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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The cost of equity capital for REITs : an examination of three asset-pricing models
… can be used in practice to estimate the cost of equity capital for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). While the cost of equity is an important concept for all industries, it has particular relevance for REITs, as the current environment has forced many REITs to explore new methods of …
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The effects of regulatory policy on the cost of equity capital and the value of equity in the electric utility industry.
Thesis. 1980. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.
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Determinants and consequences of attribution statements on corporate financial performance outcomes in the annual report. An empirical analysis of UK listed firms.
… their association with the rm's cost of equity capital. Using data drawn from a sample of 142 UK rms listed on the London Stock Exchange, content analysis was used to measure the extent of attributions in the annual reports for the year 2006. The results show that the volume of …
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IPO valuation and performance: evidence from the UK main market
… method by which firms are able to raise new equity capital. If the firm sells stock for the first time to the general public, it is called an initial public offering (IPO). Subsequent to the IPO, firms may seek to raise further equity capital by offering to sell new shares through a seasoned …
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Silence is Golden? Evidence from Social Disclosure Gap
… disclosure gap is related to the firms’ cost of equity capital. I employ Latent Dirichlet Allocation, an unsupervised machine leaning technique to compare the thematic content of news articles and company reports, comprising of 5 billion words to compute the social disclosure gap for a sample of …
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Financial liberalization and dynamics of firm-level financing and investment decisions in the Southeast Asian countries
… liberalization by considering the debt and equity financing decisions of a set of non-financial firms. The empirical results show that firms in Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Korea have relatively faster speed of adjustment than other Southeast Asian countries to attain optimal debt and …
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Estimating the cost of capital for divisions of a firm: A spanning approach
… for the estimation of a division's cost of equity capital. Current procedures developed to address this problem have faced much resistance from the corporate community. The primary problem has been the inability to accurately measure the market risk of a nontraded entity.
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Essays on stock market openness, cost of capital and investment
… effects of stock market openness on the cost of equity capital and investment. Whilst theoretical models and extant empirical evidence suggest that emerging markets integration with global markets promotes risk sharing between domestic and foreign investors, reducing the cost of capital and …
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Relative valuations of merchant and tolling LNG models considering alternate capital structures
… domestic and regional prices are uncertain, and capital expenditure costs require a heavy debt burden. We will examine two primary LNG contract structures with altering project financing considerations. The first is the merchant model, in which the LNG asset owner takes title to the supply. The …
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The Effect of Operational Control Quality on Operational Efficiency and Cost of Capital: Evidence from U.S. Bank Holding Companies
… operational efficiency and the costs of debt and equity capital for a large sample of U.S. bank holding companies. I measure banksâ operational control quality using two measures: (1) the incidence of actual operational risk events as an ex-post observable proxy for weaknesses in operational …
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Three Essays on Bank Capital Structure, Performance, and Financial Inclusion
… and financial sector, particularly banks’ capital, performance, and financial inclusion. The first essay investigates the determinants of bank capital structure taking into account the impact of the crisis, banks’ systemic size and risks. Using a sample of the European Economic Area’s …
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