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Showing 1 to 20 of 145 for “"market competition"”.
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International Evidence on Product Market Competition and Firm Value
… theory and empirical research suggests product market competition can result in both positive and negative capital market effects. Specifically, research suggests competition reduces agency costs, but also reduces profitability. I examine the relation between product market competition and firm …
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Capital structure and product market competition: evidence from the EU life insurance industry.
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2012. Major: Business Administration. Advisor: Prof. Stephen Parente. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 47 pages, appendices A-C.
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Using Friedman to understand the relationship between market competition and corporate social performance
… these two ideas, it is not clear what role competition plays, since there is confusion in the literature about the theoretical relationships among these factors. Competition is expected to be an important factor because Friedman's writings on corporate social responsibility stated that firms …
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Capital structure and product market competition : an empirical analysis of the supermarket industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Unraveling the Impact of Product Market Competition and Earnings Volatility on Zero Leverage Policies
… investigates the relationship between product market competition and zero leverage behavior within firms, aiming to uncover how these dynamics interact. Additionally, it explores whether firms characterized by higher earnings volatility exhibit a more pronounced positive relationship between …
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The Moderating Role of Board Structure and Market Competition on CEO Power, Risk, and Investment Efficiency
… moderating role of strong board structure and market competition on association between CEO power and risk by analysing the UK-listed financial and non-financial firms. The third empirical chapter provides evidence on the role of market competition in the nexus between powerful CEO and …
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Essays About Newspaper Political Endorsements
… "Newspaper Political Endorsements and Market Competition," I develop and estimate a simple structural model to identify the factors determining endorsements. I consider an environment where newspapers are characterized by a political orientation and only make well-informed endorsements. …
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Essays in Financial Economics: Empirical Corporate Finance
… firm events and their interactions with the market. Chapter 1 is a joint work with Kose John, Xu Tian, and Yihan Liu. In this chapter, we analyze the market reaction to CEO turnover announcements in the presence of information frictions. We find that the market reaction to forced CEO turnover …
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Innovation & competition in a memory process
Does innovation increase or decrease with more competition when innovation follows a memory process? This thesis provides a theoretical model which analyzes the innovation and competition relationship assuming that innovation follows a memory process, i.e. the current probability of innovation …
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Economic Determinants Of Quality Of Care In Nursing Homes
… of care using several national data sources on market regulation, county demographic characteristics, market structural and the characteristics of different types of long-term care providers in 2010. </p> <p>The first study examines how nine different measures of nursing home care quality …
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Does Similarity Produce Synergy in Horizontal Hospital Acquisitions? Linking Operations Characteristics to Operations Strategy
… (M&As) are derived not only from the market, financial, and managerial synergies, but also from operational synergies in economies of scale, clinical standardizations, service line optimizations, and so forth. To understand the roles that operations characteristics, and operations …
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Ideas, interests and institutions in the globalising economy: the evolution and internationalisation of antitrust
… and more specifically, conceptual approaches to competition policy, in the international context. Existing legal and economic studies have mainly framed antitrust as the disciplinary tool regulating market competition according to criteria of efficiency and/or economic welfare. So far, few …
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Fabrication and application of patterned magnetic media
… for patterned media fabrication. IP environment, market competition and business models will be given at the end.
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Three Essays on Dynamic Corporate Finance in Continuous Time
… individual firms' leverage dynamics and product market competition. Equity holders are unable to commit to a future debt level and determine the firms' financing, production, entry and exit decisions. Non-commitment makes debt financing more expensive as debt holders foresee a ratchet up in …
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Investigation of the impact of demand elasticity and system constraints on electricity market using extended Cournot approach
… an important factor that can influence the market performance and output effectively. Demand elasticity shows the sensitivity of demand side to the market price, and thus can provide potential adjustment of demand in the market. The purpose of this research is to study the impact of demand …
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Contagion of a Crisis, Corporate Governance, and Credit Rating
… -- to maximize their utility in the product market competition. That is, we assess the effects of the competitive structure of a product market on a firm's corporate governance structure. We show that shareholders determine the corporate governance structure, including the manager's stock …
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Three essays on financial economics
My first essay, Product Market Competition, R&D Investment and Stock Returns, considers the interaction between product market competition and investment in research and development (R&D) to tackle two asset pricing puzzles: the positive R&D-return relation and the positive competition-return …
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Does Ownership Matter in Ethnic Media Firms? The Economic Goals of Media Firms for Ethnic Groups and Media Firms Owned by Ethnic Groups
… have higher ethnic population density and less market competition than media-by newspapers, although the difference is not statistically significant. Besides, an interesting finding is that media-by newspapers have much higher rate of paid to free circulation than media-for newspapers, and the …
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Essays on Financing of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
… strategy and how it enables the firm to navigate market competition and policy uncertainties. Utilizing data from U.S. public firms from 2000 to 2014, I empirically demonstrate that political capital significantly influences a firm's investment in innovation, especially under specific market …
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