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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Private Firms"”.
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Performance of privatised and private firms : empirical evidence from Egypt
… has affected the performance of privatised firms. Using 15 years of data, which cover the period 1990/1991 to 2004/2005; this thesis empirically investigates three main issues. Firstly, it examines whether the performance of privatised firms improves following privatisation through comparing …
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Do private firms engage in earnings management practices to get capital grants? Some evidence from Italy
… These changes have implied for beneficiary firms a greater effort both to compete for a lower slide of public resources and to demonstrate their ability to integrate the residual unsubsidised stake of their investments either through their own internal resources or by external financing. …
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Private firms and holistic development in second-tier US cities : a case study of repopulating, re-urbanizing Cincinnati and Pittsburgh
… that are sometimes undermined by unchecked private development in larger cities. As public and private forces in these places grapple with how best to meet this emerging demand, second-tier cities present a tremendous opportunity for holistic, community-minded economic growth that isn't …
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Essays in financial economics
… I find that CDB SOE industry loans crowd out private firms in the same industry but crowd in private firms in downstream industries. I also find private firms benefit from CDB infrastructure loans. I use the exogenous timing of municipal political leaders' turnover as an instrument for CDB …
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Essays On Ipo Cycles And Windows Of Opportunity
… dissertation consists of two chapters regarding private firms financing in the capital market. The first chapter explores the long-term failure rate of private firms that issued initial public offerings (IPOs) in the public capital market. We study busted, or failed, IPOs to examine the …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… Recent pressure on publicly traded (public) firms to divest high greenhouse gas-emitting assets has raised concerns that these assets are flowing to more opaque, privately held (private) firms that may be operating them in more emissions-intensive ways and that sellers are being rewarded for …
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Try Before You Buy: Measuring Innovation Synergy Using Textual Analysis
… corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in private firms prior to engaging in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This dissertation investigates the strategic role of CVC using a three-stage framework and applies advanced textual analyses to examine how these investments reduce in-formation …
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Try Before You Buy: Measuring Innovation Synergy Using Textual Analysis
… corporate venture capital (CVC) investments in private firms prior to engaging in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This dissertation investigates the strategic role of CVC using a three-stage framework and applies advanced textual analyses to examine how these investments reduce in-formation …
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Public policy and barriers influencing SMEs' market expansion
… (SMEs) in a setting that includes both private and public institutions instead of only public institutions. To that end, the resource-based view of a firm (RBV) theory and institutional theory were adopted as main theories for the study on the premise that SMEs have limited internal …
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Theoretical investigations into competition, regulation, and integration in transport networks
… model. We find that various regimes involving private firms are likely to lead to the provision of an integrated ticketing system, but that not all such regimes are socially desirable. We consider how the configuration of regulatory policy may steer the private firms to produce more socially …
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The Brazilian Microcomputer Industry: A Case Study on a High-Technology Infant Industry
… in domestic production, which relied mainly on private firms."
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Three Essays On Private Market Interactions
… in relatively safe assets, choose to invest in private equity (PE). Using insurer financial disclosures, we test theories relating how risk shifting, managerial discretion, underinvestment, asset liability matching, regulation, home bias, and reaching for yield affect PE investment. Results …
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Development Challenges for Chinese Private Manufacturing Firms in Globalisation
… planned system towards a market economy and its private sector has played increasingly important roles in the national development. During the process, Chinese private manufacturing firms made remarkable contribution to advancing reform, driving growth, enhancing export and improving employment. …
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Three Empirical Essays on Energy and Labor Economics
… dissertation analyzes the differences between private and non-private firms in two contexts. Chapters 1 and 2 examine the electricity industry in the United States and the motivation behind electric utilities' usage of demand side management programs. The first chapter focuses on load …
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Who benefits from investment in universities? : institutions, university spillovers, and firm performance
… relative to state-owned enterprises, domestic private firms in these regions experienced performance decline. Collectively, the results suggest that spillover effects from universities on industry are not unidirectional and uniform, and are specific to the unique institutional arrangements of …
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The Effect of Prohibiting Non-Audit Services on Auditor Independence of Mind in the United Kingdom
… In addition to audit examinations, audit firms often provide clients with NAS such as tax services, litigation support services, accounting services, recruitment and remuneration services and others. Due to increasing globalisation, new technologies and the growth of multinational …
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Essays on Innovation
… research is more basic than the one of the private firms. Using a unique patent database using GM crops technology, where I can track the development of the technology since I identify the first patent issued in this field. One significant finding is that university patents generate broader …
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Creditor coordination effects and bankruptcy prediction
… denial of refinancing, or disagreement over private restructuring. Applying findings from prior literature, I present creditor coordination effects as interactions between the ex ante likelihood of creditor coordination failure and a firm's information characteristics. The most striking …
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Private equity fund valuation management during fundraising
I investigate whether and how private equity fund managers (GPs) inflate their interim fund valuations (net asset values or NAVs) during fundraising periods. Specifically, I study the extent to which the GPs inflate NAVs by managing valuation assumptions (e.g., valuation multiples), influencing the …
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Private Equity Executive Compensation
Abstract I compare compensation arrangements of firms with private equity and public debt and firms with arrangements public equity and public debt. In a sample of 77 firms, I find that privately held firms offer less bonus compensation in levels, but more as a percentage of total income, less …
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