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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Financing Constraints"”.
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Three Essays on Investment Cashflow Sensitivities and Workforce Dynamics in UK Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
… of cashflow uncertainty, agency cost, and financing constraints. It comprises three research essays that conduct an empirical investigation of UK SMEs from 2007 to 2021 using panel data estimation techniques. The first essay reveals the sensitivity of abnormal investments to free cashflows. …
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Firm Dynamics
… The first chapter studies the implications of financing constraints on optimal expansion strategies of multiple-product firms and their consequent effect on aggregate productivity level. In particular, this chapter seeks to understand how firms may prioritise expanding their domestic product …
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Essays on industry linkages and foreign direct investment : evidence from Nigeria
… also looks at how FDI loosens the financial constraints of domestic firmsthrough the use of the Euler framework, and the consideration of the industry linkages. Theresults show that private domestic firms do have financing constraints and the flow of inwardFDI alleviates the financing …
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An evaluation of the provision and performance of acute care hospitals in the non-metropolitan regions of the Western Cape Province
… Departments across South Africa face increasing financing constraints comparable to other developing countries and reported internationally. During the 1997/98 financial year, the Department of Health (DOH), Provincial Administration of the Western Cape (PAWC) faced huge cuts in its financial …
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Essays in Capital Structure
<p>The costs and constraints to financing, and the factors that influence them, play critical roles in the determination of corporate capital structures.</p> <p>Chapter 1 estimates firm-specific marginal cost of debt functions for a large panel of companies between 1980 and 2007. The marginal cost …
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Investigating the relationship between private sector credit extension and economic growth: A case study of Namibia
… better financial systems alleviate external financing constraints that may hinder business growth and expansion. In light of this, the study investigated the relationship between private sector credit extension and economic growth in Namibia. Using quarterly data on Gross Domestic Product …
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Pensions, corporate finance, and public policy
… evident among firms that appear to face financing constraints based on observable variables such as credit ratings. There is some evidence suggesting that firms which do not sponsor defined benefit pension plans may undertake some of the capital investment that pension sponsors in their …
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Assessment of technical and scale efficiency of public clinics in eSwatini
… outcomes. In addition to government health financing constraints, health systems outcomes in developing countries may also be jeopardized by the prevalence of inefficiencies within local health care delivery systems, especially within public health facilities. This study investigates the …
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Essays on Hedge Fund Activism and Family Firm
… informativeness, CEO power, external monitoring, financing constraints, and overconfidence do not seem to drive our findings.
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ESSAYS ON FINANCIAL REFORMS AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN EMERGING MARKETS
… supply shocks could reduce domestic firms' financing constraints, especially for private-owned enterprises. In addition, I investigate the hypothesis that foreign bank entry intensified competition in the domestic banking sector, using a newly constructed regional bank competition index. …
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Challenges facing informal economy social security in Namibia
The study intended to explore ways in which the financing or funding constraints faced by sse in the provision of social security benefits to the informal economy can be overcome. The study differs from other studies, g1ven that it aimed to unearth the financing constraints that may be faced by sse …
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Investment Cash Flow Sensitivity: International Evidence
… of firm-investment by incorporating a role for financing constraints in determining the firm's investment decision. Empirical work points to overwhelming evidence that in the presence of market imperfections, firm investments become sensitive to the availability of internal cash flows. However, …
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OUTSIDERS IN FAMILY FIRMS: A PERSPECTIVE FROM FINANCING DECISION
… in the senior management team is related to the financing decision of Chinese listed family firms. For a sample of listed family firms from 2008 to 2017, I find that family firms with more outsiders in their senior management team (including the CEO, vice general manager, CFO, secretary of the …
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Financial liberalization and industry structure nexus: an investigation using dynamic heterogeneous panels from Malawian data
… as it removes the credit access constraints on firms, especially small and medium ones. Competition among financial institutions, which accompanies financial liberalization, leads to greater availability of finance and a reduction in the cost for firms of raising capital for …
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Information systems implementation and IT-enabled organisational change in the Eastern Caribbean tourism sector : an examination of factors impacting on the successful adoption and use of the Internet and web-based systems in national tourist offices and the Caribbean Tourism Organisation
… systems, indicated by wide CR gaps, were: financing constraints, a low level of emphasis placed on these initiatives and the limited integration of IT with related business processes. A distinct `organisational lag' was noted between technological innovation and administrative or process …