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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Over-investment"”.
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Mexico -- space/nation/class -- U.S.
… of public space", resulting from the overt merging of "public" concerns (typically represented through the State) and "private" interests (in our society, usually defined by groups with significant power over investment decisions) is often taken as symptomatic of a general trend …
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Advertising in Markets with Consumption Externalities
… deterrence involves strategic pre-commitment to over-investment relative to the non-strategic simultaneous advertising benchmark. I show that when entry deterrence is not possible the incumbent does not possess a first mover advantage and optimal entry accommodation involves strategic investment …
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The Effects of Anticipated Future Investments on Firm Value: Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions
… examine the long-term valuation consequence of over-investment in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on acquiring firms through the "anticipation effect," in which forward-looking prices embed investors' expectations about the profitability of firms' potential future acquisitions. Using a sample of …
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Understanding special economic zone policy in China : a conceptual framework and two cases
… parks show a positive agglomeration and spillover effect, which indicate effective coordination through the visible hand--policy intervention. However, empirical studies also show problems of over-investment and spatial misallocation. To complement existing empirical evidence of the outcome of …
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The Moderating Role of Board Structure and Market Competition on CEO Power, Risk, and Investment Efficiency
… in the nexus between powerful CEO and investment efficiency. Panel data estimation techniques (pooled regression and fixed effects) are used to analyse the sample over the period 2010-2018. This research finds that CEOs are risk averse, but they engage in more risk-taking in the …
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The dividend policy in Europe : the cases of the UK, Germany, France and Italy
… by the financial, institutional and corporate governance differences between European countries. The thesis examines the "big three imperfections" of the dividend policy: taxation, asymmetric information and agency costs. The uniqueness of the thesis is its European character. The main argument …
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Labour Investment: A Managers’ Decision-Making Perspective
… factors that affect management’s labour investment decisions and how management of labour influences firm performance. In my first study, I examine how firms adjust their labour in response to business downturns and how different labour adjustment practices influence firms’ financial …
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Essays on Corporate Finance Theory and Dynamic Games
… we study SPACs in a continuous-time delegated investment model. The sponsor has an increasing incentive to propose unprofitable projects to the investor over time; in response, the investor exerts more stringent screening based on her information. The screening helps curb the sponsor’s moral …
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Three Essays in Macroeconomics
… allocations in the Mirrlees framework when the government cannot tax unrealized capital income at the individual level. Use of the corporate tax requires changes in the individual capital tax. The novelty of the paper is that the sophisticated tax system is designed to influence the individual …
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Queer Things: Victorian Objects and the Fashioning of Homosexuality
… scandal with a simultaneously emerging genre of overwrought fashion criticism, I argue that an (over)investment in fashionable objects and a detailed knowledge of fashionability became important sites for the develop of gay-effeminate social styles. The second chapter positions Charles Worth, …
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The Conflict-Cooperation Nexus. Politicisation, Security and Domestic Institutions in EU-Russia Energy Relations
Over the last decade, EU–Russia gas relations have witnessed significant deterioration—the bilateral agenda has been narrowed down to ad hoc consultations, disputes over investment and long-term contract provisions have multiplied, and disagreements between the EU and Russia have significantly …
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Three Essays on Investment Cashflow Sensitivities and Workforce Dynamics in UK Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
The thesis aims to extend the understanding of investment cashflow sensitivities and workforce dynamics with the interplay 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 …
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Alienation and Dwelling: The Pursuit of Happiness in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature
… in Holland, requires that Boswell make his life over in accordance with a set of strict moral principles. Both of these, I argue, involve an over-investment in a particular conception of representation. Chapter two turns to Laurence Sterne, whose Tristram Shandy discloses a notion of …
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Strategies to improve C4 photosynthesis, water and resource-use efficiency under different atmospheres, temperatures, and light environments
… boosts photosynthetic efficiency and overall productivity, while improving the efficiency with which key inputs such as water or nitrogen are used. Several of the world's most important and productive crops, such as maize, sugarcane, and sorghum, all use the C4 pathway. However, even …