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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"corporate policies"”.
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Three Essays on Corporate Policies
… interdependences of organizational and financial policies within firms in different contexts. The first essay studies the interactions between acquisition decisions of multinationals and innovation decisions in the subsidiaries they buy. My coauthors Maria Guadalupe and Catherine Thomas, and I use …
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Three Essays on Fiscal Stimulus, Corporate Policies, and the Local Economy
… have captured an ever-growing share of U.S. corporate profits. In parallel, payout rates have risen sharply: firms increasingly return profits to shareholders rather than retain them. Together, these two trends have produced a dramatic surge in corporate payout distributions. For example, …
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Essays on the impact of institutional investors on market efficiency and corporate policies
… preferences of institutional investors for firm policies and the relationship between these preferences and firm decisions. I find that institutional investors exhibit systematic differences in their preferences for financial and investment policies. Furthermore, these preferences are related to …
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What Makes a Modern Indian Profession? Corporate Policies and Middle-Class Subjectivities in Chennai's Information Technology Industry
… of discursive framings of employees and policies within the industry. More broadly, this thesis calls for ‘thick descriptions’ (Geertz 1973: 6) of labour relations in local contexts, while emplacing these within transnational capital circuits. It also argues for a more nuanced …
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Essays in corporate finance and corporate management
… dissertation contains two chapters that study corporate cash holdings and corporate management. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter.Chapter 1 is titled: Easy Come, Easy Go: Cheap Cash and Bad Corporate Decisions. This chapter investigates the relationship between the sources of …
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THREE ESSAYS IN LABOR FINANCE
… policy and financial market conditions influence corporate decisions related to intangible capital. I exploit large-scale labor market data to study firm-level human capital along multiple dimensions. Chapter one examines corporate hiring sensitivities to a sudden tax windfall, documenting …
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Moral hyperactivity in corporations: is corporate governance the solution?
Until recently, moral hyperactivity in US corporate settings has primarily gone unnoticed in academic research. This is in large part due to the closed-door secrecy of the inner workings of corporate governance.<br/><br/>Currently, when examining moral hyperactivity, academic literature primarily …
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Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors' Involvement in Firms Post Initial Public Offering
… but also complete intense restructuring, improve corporate governance, align interest of managers and shareholders, provide certification and improve performance (Jensen 1986, 1989; Baker and Wruck, 1989; Baker and Gompers, 2003; Hochberg, 2012; Acharya et al, 2009). These investors are likely to …
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Three Essays on Corporate Governance and Institutional Investors
… analyzes the role of institutional investors in corporate governance. The first essay studies the effect of potential proxy contests on corporate policies. I find that when the likelihood of a proxy contest increases, companies exhibit increases in leverage, dividends, and CEO turnover. In …
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Renegotiation and the choice of covenants in debt contracts
… borrower and force it to bypass value-enhancing corporate policies (e.g., investments). Consistent with this interpretation, the negative relationship between renegotiation costs and the presence of flexibility-reducing covenants becomes stronger when the borrower has fewer outside options and …
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Three Essays on Foreign CEOs
… examines the impact of foreign CEOs on the corporate policies of publicly traded US companies. Using a sample of S&P 1500 firms from 2000 to 2017, this thesis exploits the variation in foreign CEOs’ international experience and national culture to analyse their impact on firm risk, capital …
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Essays in empirical corporate finance and banking
… entitled ""The Lift of the Trade Embargo and Corporate Policies: Evidence from the Immigrants' Network"" studies the causal effect of foreign competition on corporate investment, cash holdings, financing and leverage decisions using the lift of the trade embargo against Vietnam as an exogenous …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… testing of retirement plans and 2) corporate policies of national wage setting. We then develop and estimate an on-the-job search model which shows that the average worker requires only a 0.25 percentage point increase in employer contribution dollars to offset a 1% decrease in …
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Essays on entrepreneurship and management
… 3: Contrasts in Styles and Managers Impact on Corporate Policy This essay proposes a new approach to study how corporate policies change upon the replacement of the CEO. We employ corrected simultaneous tests (not subjected to the criticism attributed to the F-test) on the CEO fixed effects and …
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Essays on Financial Economics
… market prices and, if so, how this affects corporate decisions. In the first chapter, I investigate whether and how investors’ cognitive limitations influence market prices. I study this issue in the context of an accounting rule that enabled firms to avoid recognition of a compensation …
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Four essays on capital structure dynamics: special reference to level of leverage, state ownership, corporate governance and climate risk
… after considering the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance in Vietnam, reveal that the legal system, the rule of law, and investor protection in developing countries are not as effective as in developed countries. As such, corporate governance in developing …