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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"signaling effect"”.
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Three Essays in Auctions and Contests
… less efficient outcomes. Chapter 4 analyzes the signaling effect of bidding in a two-round elimination contest. Before the final round, bids in the preliminary round are revealed and act as signals of the contestants' private valuations. Compared to the benchmark model, in which private …
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Does Tightening Auditing Standards Improve or Impair Welfare?
This study investigates the effects of tightening auditing standards in a setting of an oligopolistic audit market and a competitive capital market. I look at how tightening auditing standards affects audit quality, audit fee, audit market share, stock price, and investment decisions. Two audit …
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Essays on markets and information
… productivity by forgoing market opportunities. Signaling allows the firm to bypass the learning stage and encourages investment (signaling effect). Improved market opportunities for firms, however, discourage longterm relationships and undermine investment incentives (layoffs effect). I embed …
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Early adoption of accounting standards in the banking industry
… In addition, the results suggest a counter-signaling effect of early-adoption decisions. I further find that banks are more likely to choose early adoption for the purpose of having better access to external financing when the income effects of accounting standards are ex ante undetermined …
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Utility Stock Splits: Signaling Motive Versus Liquidity Motive
… two traditional motives for splitting stock --signaling versus liquidity-marketability motives. Public electric utility firms provide a clean testing ground for these two non-mutually exclusive theories as liquidity/marketability hypothesis should dominate before the enactment of the EPACT …
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The Liberalization of Capital Outflows and Its Positive influence on capital inflows : modelsand empirical analysis
… beginning period. The second model is about the "signaling effect" of capital-outflow liberalizations. It is based on this asymmetric information system. Investors will regard current capital polices as a signal for future possible polices. Today's liberalization on capital outflows predicts a …
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Capital Controls and Banking Crises in Emerging Markets
… to account for the possible differences in the effects of different types of capital controls and capital flows. We also argue that the relationship may depend on political and institutional factors, such as institutional quality and other economic policies like macroprudential policies and …
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An empirical study of attitudes towards green urban development
… Previous hedonic literature on the comprehensive effect of compact development is limited. Also, spatial dependence in the data, something likely endemic to compact development, has not yet been thoroughly addressed. This study uses a spatial fixed-effect model, a spatial-autoregressive model with …
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Evaluating the Barbados SSB tax: a mixed-method natural experimental study
… evaluations have suggested that they may be effective. However, SSB taxes have been implemented in diverse settings (e.g. in terms of baseline SSB consumption) and designed in a variety of ways (e.g. in terms of tax structure), with important implications for effectiveness. The Government of …
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Cellular metal ion sensing using DNAzymes
… equally important role of metal ions is as signaling molecules. It has been shown that changes in concentrations of calcium, zinc, or copper can trigger downstream signaling effect in neurons. Despite these important functions, high levels of many metal ions, especially transition metal …