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Showing 1 to 20 of 170 for “"Issuance"”.
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The Pricing And Performance Of Convertible Preferred Stock Offerings Following Issuance
… pricing and performance following issuance. It is the first major academic study that identifies significant abnormal performance of corporate contingent claims following issuance. The research utilizes both option-based contingent claims valuation models and econometric techniques …
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The equity and information contents of a security : implications for issuance strategy
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Gouverneur Morris and the Foreign Service: Influence on Issuance of the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793.
<p>Gouverneur Morris had an influence on the foreign policy of the Washington administration. This thesis will be focusing Morris' career as foreign minister to France. Morris served as the American minister to France during the French Revolution and reported to the Washington Administration on the …
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Examining issuance and pricing of Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities during the financial crisis of 2007-2009
Changes in the issuance of Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities are examined and contrasted with market events and policy action during the financial crisis of 2007-2009. Additionally, a sample of investment-grade Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities are separated by original rating and observed …
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Impact of Restricted Stock Grant (RSG) Issuance on Financial Performance of US Software and IT Companies
This study examines the relationship between the issuance of Restricted Stock Grant (RSG) and the financial performance of Software and Information Technology (IT) companies in the United States (US). Data pertaining to RSG and financial performance are obtained from the companies' 10-K reports and …
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Crisis public relations : a case study of the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses by the San Francisco Mayor's Office
… Office's public relations management of the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses. The research was conductedas a case-study, integrating a comprehensive literature review and semi-structured interviews. Analysis of the results suggested that the Mayoral Office's campaign was successful in …
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The effects of licensing and equity financing cycles on pharmaceutical development
… interactions between licensing status, equity issuance cycles, and drug development success at the small pharmaceutical companies that originate these development projects. Specifically, this paper is aimed at identifying how financing alternatives available to small pharmaceutical companies …
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Two Essays on Convertible Debt
… examines two different topics related to the issuance of a convertible debt security. The first essay addresses the question of how managers set the equity value in a convertible debt issue. A convertible debt security has value derived from an equity component and a debt component. As a …
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FEES, GOING CONCERN OPINIONS AND AUDITOR DISMISSALS: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT
… non-audit services (hereafter NAS)) after the issuance of such an opinion is an important question. If there is an increase in fees that result from changing auditors after a going concern modified opinion, this suggests there may be other motivations for changing auditors after a going concern …
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An investigation of the effects of SFAS No.121 on asset impairment reporting and stock returns
… abnormal returns (CAR) before and after the issuance of SFAS No.121. The findings provide support for the hypothesis that the FASB's new accounting standard does not affect the magnitude of asset writedown losses. The findings also provide support for the hypothesis that SFAS No. 121 does not …
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Driving swap spreads in South Africa : an investigation into the dominant factors influencing swap spreads in the South African market
… yield volatility, the level of government bond issuance, and the level of corporate borrowing. The regression results indicated that the slope of the bond yield curve dominates as a predictor variable with the level of corporate borrowing and the level of government bond issuance playing a …
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Does the PCAOB Inspection have an Effect on Audit Fees and Audit Quality?
I investigate the effects of the issuance of the PCAOB Part II report on audit fees and audit quality. The PCAOB replaced the peer review auditor program with an independent inspection of audit firms. Upon completion of each inspection, the PCAOB issues inspection reports that include a public …
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Perceived Risk and the Siting of a Controversial Wastewater Treatment Plant in Central Texas
… risk perception in a water policy decision, the issuance of a permit by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to the Waco Metropolitan Regional Sewerage System permitting them to discharge 1.5 million gallons of waste water effluent a day into Bull Hide Creek. The study took place between …
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Market Valuation of Convertible Securities of U.S. Airlines
… model prices are estimated for two years after issuance and compared with market prices by calculating pricing errors. It turns out that mean pricing error for our sample is 2.63 %, indicating that market undervalues airline convertible preferred stocks by about 2.63 %. In addition, a panel data …
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Municipal bonds in sub-Saharan Africa: the checkered past of debt instruments in an era of incomplete decentralization
… understand their approaches to municipal bond issuance. Based on the findings from research, the thesis concludes that the chief obstacle blocking the uptake of municipal bond issuance as a means for raising funds stems from a variety of elements in the constitutional and regulatory systems in …
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Fear as a predictor of firearm ownership and concealed weapons permits in Clark County, Nevada
… and the relationship between fear and the issuance of concealed weapons permits, were posited. Data for the number of registered firearms and issued concealed weapons permits were obtained from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Firearms Detail and CCW Detail. Criminal incidents …
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Two Essays on Momentum and Reversals in Stock Returns
… and reversals conditional on firms’ share issuance (net of repurchases) during the momentum holding period and show that (1) among losers, the momentum returns are statistically significant, but the reversals are non-existent, for both issuers and non-issuers; (2) among winners, momentum …
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OUTSIDERS IN FAMILY FIRMS: A PERSPECTIVE FROM FINANCING DECISION
… fewer bank loans, and a larger amount of bond issuance. Considering the superiority of bonds to bank loans in the issuance procedure, amount, maturity, and cost, the positive impact of the presence of outsiders on bond issuance indicates that outsiders help to alleviate family firms’ financing …
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