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Showing 1 to 20 of 233 for “"Financial Constraints"”.
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Financial constraints and firms’ activities in China
The understanding the effects of financial constraints and firms’ activities is an important issue from both macroeconomics and microeconomics perspectives. The recent development of the asymmetric information approach has established a link between finance and the real activity. A good …
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Foreign Portfolio Investment and the Financial Constraints of Small Firms
… impact of foreign portfolio investment on the financial constraints of small firms. Utilizing a dataset of over 195,000 firm-year observations across 53 countries, I examine the impact of foreign portfolio investment on capital issuance and firm growth across countries and firm characteristics, …
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The impact of financial constraints on the local price of farm land
<p>Most farm land acquisitions involve a significant commitment of money capital. The proportion of owned versus borrowed wealth used to meet the purchase commitment is reflected in the down-payment ratio. The larger the down-payment ratio, the greater the proportion of owned wealth employed in the …
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Essays on the financial constraints and related firm behaviour: the case of Pakistan
… the understanding of the suitable measures of financial constraints for the case of a developing country and the effects of financial constraints on firm‟s activities. In this respect, we employ data for Pakistani listed non-financial firms from 2006 to 2015, check the presence of financial …
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Project and procurement method selection in the context of portfolio consideration and financial constraints
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000.
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Price competition and advertising : stragetic price coordination, price war leaders and followers, and financial constraints on advertising
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Essays in corporate finance and investments
… risk on the asset side. It studies the effect of financial constraints on equity holders' risk-shifting incentives within a real options framework. Within this framework, shareholders trade off the benefit of risk-shifting with the cost of financial constraints. Therefore risk-shifting is avoided …
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Dysfunctional market or insufficient creditworthiness? : an exploration of financial constraint experienced by small, medium and micro enterprises in South Africa
The existence and prevalence of financial constraints has been extensively discussed in the international economic literature, and is implicit in debates on the performance and needs of South Africa’s Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs). However, there is little solid research measuring …
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Firm access to capital markets in Europe
… measures, this paper examines and analyzes financial constraints of European countries with the Euler equation derived by the dynamic investment model. We control the cross-country differences of firms' size, business cycles and institutional backgrounds to check for the robustness of our …
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Corporate taxation and investment in South Africa
… tax policy may be a result of the presence of financial constraints. According to the financial constraints hypothesis, neoclassical fundamentals may fail to explain investment in the presence of financial constraints. The paper investigates the role of financial constraints in investment using …
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Corporate taxation and investment in South Africa
… tax policy may be a result of the presence of financial constraints. According to the financial constraints hypothesis, neoclassical fundamentals may fail to explain investment in the presence of financial constraints. The paper investigates the role of financial constraints in investment using …
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The impact of the global financial crisis on the cash flow sensitivity of investment: some evidence from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange listed non-financial firms
… between a firm’s investment behaviour, financial constraints and the level of internally generated cash flows has been a subject of extensive discussion in finance literature. The discussion revolves around the effectiveness of investment cash flow sensitivity (ICFS) as a measure of …
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Effects of Subsidies on Optimized Bus Transportation
… compares the effects of different objectives and financial constraints on conventional and flexible route bus systems, with special emphasis on the relation between subsidy and social welfare. Social welfare is the sum of producer surplus (profit) and consumer surplus and provides a good measure …
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Fluctuations in the supply of credit and its effects on the capital structure of Japanese firms
… how fluctuations in the supply of credit and financial constraints affect capital structure. It is one of the first studies to do so and its methodology is inspired by the recent studies of Faulkender & Petersen (2006) and Bougheas et al. (2006). It examines the economy of Japan, a perfect …
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Improving Maternal Health Care Accessibility and Utilization in Remote and Island Communities: An Explorative Study in Ghana
… and hard-to-reach areas. Geographic isolation, financial constraints, and inadequate infrastructure significantly impede access to essential maternal health services, impacting the health of women and newborns in Ghana’s remote and island communities.</p> <p>Objective: This study aims to explore …
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Measuring risk aversion among asset poor small-scale farmers in the Western Cape, South Africa
… in crop technologies is largely due to the financial constraints which these farmers face.
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Essays on Loan Markets in Less-Developed Economies
Financial constraints are one of the most important obstacles for businesses particularly in less–developed and developing economies. Collateral requirements are frequently addressed as one the most important obstacles to starting and running a business especially for small and medium …
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The short-term effect of rehabilitation on ecosystem services in the semi-arid succulent Karoo lowlands and the Little Karoo, South Africa
… high, short-term associated costs. To alleviate financial constraints on farmers and in order to socially and financially enhance local communities, the focus for now should be on sourcing funds from government and private sectors for rehabilitation implementation.
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Essays on Corporate Intangibles and Misconduct
… second essay examines whether the SEC can deter financial misconduct through its enforcement, and the third essay examines the impact of mandating risk disclosure on firm innovation. In the first essay, I hypothesize that employee flexibility enhances firm value because a flexible and empowered …
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Firms’ financial flexibility and the profitability of style investing
This thesis examines how firms’ financial flexibility affects the profitability of three of the most commonly used style investing strategies. They are the value-growth trading strategy (going long on stocks with high Book-to-Market ratio and short on stocks with low Book-to-Market ratio), the …
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