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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Finance -- Research"”.
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Implications of lump sum costs for empirical design in corporate finance research
… for empirical design in the context of corporate finance. The first study analyzes the dynamics of cash holding management and empirically determines the optimal policy for cash reserves. The framework stipulates that cash management is associated with the following actions: 1) allow cash level to …
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The effect of South African dividend and capital gains taxes on cost of capital, firm value and capital structure
… original in the field of South African corporate finance research. I model the relationship between STC, CGT and expected return and use this relationship to formulate an hypothesis of the expected behaviour of ex ante measures of implied cost of capital for a sample of listed South African …
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How sustainable finance is becoming mainstream?
… development. The concept of sustainable finance evolved as a novel field of finance that actively contributes to sustainable development. However, despite the fact that the sustainable finance research field has been showing tremendous growth among all sectors, it is often considered as …
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Woman's investment pays the best interest: Literature-based dissertation on gender difference in investing in emerging markets
Gender differences in investing is an expanding research area in Behavioural Finance. Research has shown that males and females behave differently in many of their decision-making processes, but this dissertation will focus mainly on the differences in investing behaviours. Because males are …
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Overconfidence and real estate research
… robust behavioural anomalies in business and finance research: overconfidence. Overconfidence significantly influences financial decisions and investment performance. However, theoretical and empirical studies are lacking in the real estate sector. In this thesis, I first conduct a critical …
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A study on capital structure and corporate governance
… areas that represent salient part of corporate finance research. By studying various aspects of the two areas, this study attempts to deepen our understanding of the two. First, this study provides both a theoretical model and empirical evidence on the interaction between capital structure and …
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Measuring the Effect of Firm-Level Investor Sentiment on Liquidity and Financial Distress
… distress, the study adds to the behavioral finance research and shows that firm-level sentiment information derived from news and Twitter media content can help market participants in their decision making.
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Co-alignment between Environment Risk, Corporate Strategy, Capital Structure, and Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation of Restaurant Firms
… model has been emphasized by several researchers in the past. The present study is an attempt to test the model using theories in corporate finance and strategic management, which will also prove the commonalties that exist between these domains of business research. This will help …
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Making sense in the financial discourse: If finance is everywhere, is it also for everyone?
… narratives is a relatively new field of research. Scholars have been investigating different types of financial narratives and studies are quite diverse, and they cover a wide range of textual data in terms of quantity and quality of information. However, the literature reveals a gap …
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The Influence of Institutional Context on Crowdfunding Adoption for MSME Financing in Nigeria
… inclusive pathway to increase MSMEs’ access to finance, in the face of persistent funding challenges. However, adoption in developing economies has been slow necessitating the exploration of factors to promote it. Hence, the factors that influences MSMEs’ adoption of crowdfunding remains an …
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Exploring the influence of funding sources on business incubation in the Western Cape
… has been the subject of considerable academic research, and a focal point in entrepreneurship support ecosystems. Business incubators provide entrepreneurs and start-up businesses with a shared space (either physical or virtual). The incubator offers a systematic shared support structure that …
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The finance gap faced by Maltese SMEs : an assessment
… of the challenges faced by SMEs to access finance. This dissertation attempts to identify the existence of a finance gap in SME finance, its extent and the factors contributing to it. The key objectives of this research study, therefore, are: - to identify the gap between demand for funds …