Download or read book Essays in capital structure theory and financial markets written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Capital Structure and Trade Financing written by Klaus Hammes and published by Department of Economics School of Economics and Commercial Law Go. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays of Capital Structure Risk Management and Options on Index Futures written by Tzu Tai and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation includes the following three essays involved in the joint determination of capital structure and stock rate of return, fair deposit insurance premium estimation, and the prediction of implied volatility of options on index futures. The first essay identifies the joint determinants of capital structure and stock returns by using three alternative approaches to deal with the measurement error-in-variable problem. The main contribution of this essay is the comprehensive confirmation on theories in corporate finance. The empirical results from the structural equation modeling (SEM) with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) show that stock returns, asset structure, growth, industry classification, uniqueness, volatility and financial rating, profitability, government financial policy, and managerial entrenchment are main factors of capital structure in either market- or book- value basis. Finally, the results in robustness test by using the Multiple Indicators and Multiple Causes (MIMIC) model and the two-stage, least square (2SLS) method show the necessity and importance of latent attributes to describe the trade-off between the financial distress and agency costs in capital structure choice. In the second essay, we use the structural model in terms of the Stair Tree model and barrier option to evaluate the fair deposit insurance premium in accordance with the constraints of the deposit insurance contracts and the consideration of bankruptcy costs. The simulation results suggest that insurers should adopt a forbearance policy instead of a strict policy for closure regulation to avoid losses from bankruptcy costs. An appropriate deposit insurance premium can alleviate potential moral hazard problems caused by a forbearance policy. In the third essay, we use two alternative approaches, time-series and cross-sectional analysis and constant elasticity of variance (CEV) model, to give different perspective of forecasting implied volatility. We use call options on the S & P 500 index futures expired within 2010 to 2013 to do the empirical work. The abnormal returns in our trading strategy indicate the market of options on index futures may be inefficient. The CEV model performs better than Black model because it can generalize implied volatility surface as a function of asset price.
Download or read book Three Essays on Network Peer Effects on Firms and Financial Markets written by Bahman Fathi Ajirloo and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays that address recent topics in corporate finance that concern for scholars, policymakers, and investors. Main body of this dissertation has been developed based on the "nexus of contracts" theory of the firm which in recent years has sparked renewed debates on the motivation underlying firm size and boundary. The first essay explores a network of interconnected firms and examines the impact of the firm's relationships with peers, rivals, and customers on its capital structure, and how the firm's revealed peers influence its financing decisions. We demonstrate that industry classification approach is fraught with measurement error, and instead implement an alternative peer identification scheme that designates peer groups as those explicitly disclosed by managers to shareholders. The results contrast with previous studies that find only weak evidence for peer effects on capital structure. We find that peer effects are particularly strong when focal firms have persistent rivals, in the sense of supplying common customers for at least two consecutive years. While constructing the firm's actual network poses a challenge, the new approach can lead to more real-world insights about firm behavior. In the second essay, I approach to a challenging version of peer effects model with firm's and peer's multinomial decision outcome as endogenous and financial fundamentals as exogenous explanatory variables. I show that managers do not set dividend policy independently and they are significantly under the influence of few self-disclosed diverse competitors rather than industry peers. The test results show that firm's dividend change actions are significantly correlated with past dividend actions of its peers and it is highly predictable for the next period. I also investigate and report marginal effects of firm's and peers' different endogenous and exogenous determinants on the outcome decision variable for example a peer group with an overall dividend increase action in the past 180 days, increases the chance of the dividend increase in the focal firm. Considering the market capitalization of dividend paying firms, the identified marginal effects and prediction of the cash distribution are economically meaningful and important. In the third essay, I propose a new approach to model and measure intangible value of the firm as the joint of network feature and book value of the firm. Despite the growing importance, the empirical asset pricing research has struggled to evaluate the effects of intangible assets on firms' market value. Utilizing characteristics of the firm network, I propose a network-centric value factor to replace the under-performing traditional value factor (HML) in a series of asset pricing factor model. I show that the new value factor portfolio provides stronger performance in all periods of the sample. I also explore short and long strategies to better understand effects of the networks on value of the firms. Initial findings emphasize that asset pricing studies should adjust the factor models by including intangible network value of the firm.
Download or read book Corporate Control and Capital Structure written by Erik Berglöf and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capital and Its Structure written by Ludwig M. Lachmann and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 1956 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Capital Structure written by Eugene Nivorozhkin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financial Markets and Incomplete Information written by Sudipto Bhattacharya and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major themes in theoretical financial economics since 1973 are presented through reprinted articles, each followed by a substantial essay by a leading scholar in the field. These original papers were written expressly for these volumes and provide a critical discussion and overview of the topic. The books thus present a broad spectrum of viewpoints with an emphasis on the work on valuation, economics of uncertainty, and taxation which pertains to the problems of financial markets and corporations.
Download or read book Essays on Voting Power Corporate Governance and Capital Structure written by Yinghong Chen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Essays on Empirical Tests Related to Capital Structure Theory written by Ning Ma and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses capital structure theories, with special attention to partial-adjustment model. Strategic waiting theory of IPO firms and its relation to market timing theory are also discussed. Two empirical tests related to capital structure theory are included. First one is a test on the relation between a firm's strategic waiting behavior in IPO market and its stock return. Second one is on the relation of a firm's strategic waiting behavior in IPO market and its subsequent capital structure decision.
Download or read book Essays on Capital Structure and Public Debt Markets written by Viktoriya Staneva and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empirical Analysis of the Capital Structure Determinants written by Abubakr Saeed and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capital structure theory is one of the most bewildering issues in the corporate finance literature. Capital structure theories suggest various factors that affect firm to maintain a target capital structure in order to maximize firm value, by minimizing the costs of prevailing market imperfections. Subsequent to the departures from Modigliani and Miller (1958) s irrelevance proposition, there is a long tradition in corporate finance to investigate the capital structure determinants of firms. Most capital structure studies based on these theories to date uses data from economies that have developed financial markets or approaching higher stages of transition, i.e. China and India. Less developed market and particular specific industry is rare in literacy sphere. This book analyzes the explanatory power of some predominant theories that have been proposed in the literature to explain determinants of capital structures across firms. In particular, this study investigates the capital structure determinants of Pakistani firms based on a panel data set from 2001 to 2005.
Download or read book Essays on Capital Structure Decisions written by Philipp Immenkötter and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capital Structure in the Modern World written by Anton Miglo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on microeconomic foundations of capital structure theory. It combines theoretical results with a large number of examples, exercises and applications. The book examines fundamental ideas in capital structure management, some of which are still not very well understood in the business community, such as Modigliani and Miller’s irrelevance result, trade-off theory, pecking-order theory, asset substitution, credit rationing and debt overhang. Chapters also cover capital structure issues that have become very important following the recent financial crisis. Miglo discusses the ways in which financial economists were forced to look critically at capital structure, as the problems faced by many companies stemmed from their financing policies following the crisis. The book also discusses links between capital structure and firm’s performance, corporate governance, firm’s strategy and flexibility, and covers such topics as life cycle approach to capital structure management, capital structure of small and start-up companies, corporate financing versus project financing and examples of optimal capital structure analyses for different companies. This comprehensive guide to capital structure theory will be of interest to all students, academics and practitioners seeking to understand this fast-developing and critical area of business management.
Download or read book Essays in Auction Theory and Financial Economics written by PAULO BRAULIO DE SOUZA COUTINHO and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary focus of this dissertation is to study the connections between the auction mechanism used to sell Treasuries securities and the secondary market activity, when auction participants can trade the auctioned securities among themselves. I use a game theoretically framework where participants understand the market rules and behave strategically so as to maximize their returns. The model is capable of explaining puzzling empirical patterns from the U.S. Treasury market and provides policy implications. In the third chapter of the dissertation I use tools developed by the auction theory to analyze corporate organizations capital structure decisions. For a firm's perspective, using debt to finance new investments could be cheaper than using equity. Nevertheless, a higher debt level increases the risks the investment will be liquidated before it yields the promised dividends. The chapter studies firms' optimal decisions when facing the trade-off between debt and equity and its implications on equilibrium prices and interest rates on the financial market.
Download or read book Does capital structure influence firms value written by Ulrike Messbacher and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-12-20 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1, University of Applied Sciences Kempten (University of Ulster), language: English, abstract: In accordance with the Signalling model by Ross (1977) an increase in gearing represents, in term of a company’s prospective cash flows, a positive signal to external investors. Because, due to the higher risk of financial distress, companies with less optimistic market prospective tend to avoid additional financial obligations. This implies that an increasing indebtedness means a higher quality of business and therefore better valuation. This leads, in turn, to the assumption that the corporate management can influence a firm’s value by changing its capital structure. If capital structure can affect value, how can firms identify an optimal capital structure and what will it look like? It is that mix of debt and equity that maximises the value of a firm and, at the same time, minimise overall cost of capital. In their seminal article, published in 1958 and 1963, Modigliani and Miller argue that under certain assumptions the value of a firm i s independent of its capital structure, but with tax-deductible interest payments, they are positively related. Moreover, there are other approaches with partly contradictory perceptions. For instance, Myers (1998, cited in Fairchild 2003, p.6) argues that there is no universal optimal mix of debt and equity; in fact it depends on firms or industries, and therefore should be considered on a case-by-case basis. Other researchers have added market imperfections, such as bankruptcy costs, agency costs, and gains from leverage- induced tax shields to the analysis and have maintained that an optimal capital structure may exist (Hatfieldet al.1994, p.1). First, this paper shows the basic determinants of a firm’s value in association with the impact of financial leverage on payoffs to stockholders. Secondly, it considers some arguments of capital structure theories, particularly the Modigliani and Miller theorem and the Traditional approach and contrasts them. Finally, the underlying factors of the model assumptions are examined and shown that they are important in the choice of a firm’s debt-equity ratio.
Download or read book Two Essays in Applied Economics and Finance written by Bennett W. Golub and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
