Download or read book Essays in Corporate Finance and Strategy written by Gabriel Andres Natividad and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Corporate Finance written by John Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Essays in Strategic Corporate Finance written by Torsten Twardawski and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Compilation of Essays in Corporate Finance written by Melinda L. Newman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Corporate Finance written by Nomalia Manna and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate strategies have always been an important part of the Finance literature. Firms and corporations constantly update their strategies and adopt new ways to combat the ever-changing market dynamics and reap benefits from various corporate activities. My thesis includes three essays that span over different strategies adopted by corporations and corporate boards to mitigate issues resulting from corporate deals, competition, and regulations. In the first essay, I examine if targets of serial acquirers retain or hire a specific type of financial advisors. Using pairwise matching between target firms and potential financial advisors, I find that 41% of firms targeted by serial acquirers use the financial advisor of a previous target of the same acquirer. After controlling for prior relations and reputation, I find that targets hire these advisors with a significantly higher likelihood than others. These targets earn higher returns and can complete deals sooner. On the other hand, serial acquirers suffer from lower returns. The results suggest that targets adopting this strategy of hiring "repeated advisors" gain an information advantage. The "repeated advisors" collect knowledge about the acquirers from prior deal negotiations and can transfer this information to the later targets. The results also provide a potential explanation for why serial acquirers perform poorly in their later deals. The second essay (with Sungjoung Kwon) studies the choices of corporate venturing by public corporations. While existing literature on corporate venture capital (CVC) primarily focuses on investments through CVC units, corporations frequently make investments in startups directly. We document that between 2000 and 2019, approximately 42% of deals made by U.S. public firms were through direct investments, and 90% of public firms with CVC units also made direct investments in startups. The agency hypothesis predicts that managers use direct investments to entrench themselves. In contrast, the organizational friction hypothesis posits that firms rely on direct investments to address immediate strategic goals. Our findings provide strong support for the organization friction hypothesis. Firms directly invest in startups whose operations are highly correlated with theirs and which are less likely to be potential investment targets of their CVC units. Using a difference-in-differences design around the introduction of Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, we find that firms increase direct investments (but not investments through their CVC units) when the entry of startups increases. Overall, our findings shed light on choices of corporate venturing under different firm strategies. The final essay investigates the effects of merger objection lawsuits on acquirers and deal outcomes. In recent years these lawsuits have significantly increased in numbers, and a majority of them usually settle with the addition of more information to the proxy statements and substantive attorney fees. Since these settlements do not benefit the shareholders, most merger litigations are deemed as frivolous lawsuits in recent years. In response to this, in January 2016, Delaware Chancery Court introduced In re Trulia ruling, which states that the court will dismiss all lawsuits leading to "disclosure-only" settlements. This phenomenon lowered the massive volume of merger lawsuits faced by firms. Using this quasi-natural shock to the settlements of litigations, I find that acquirers incorporated in the states that adopted this ruling perform more acquisitions post-2016 and complete deals faster. I also find that such deals do not result in negative acquirer returns or higher offer premiums. Overall, the results indicate that this ruling provided some relief for the acquirers from the nuisance of the frivolous lawsuits.
Download or read book Essays in Corporate Finance and Investment written by Lin William Cong and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis consists of two essays that examine several problems in corporate finance and mechanism design. The central theme is endogenous agency conflicts and their impact on dynamic investment decisions. The first essay features auctions of assets and projects with embedded real options, and subsequent exercises of these investment options. The essay shows timing and security choice of auctions endogenously misalign incentives among agents and derives the optimal auction design and exercise strategy. The second essay studies implications of endogenous learning on irreversible investment decisions, in particular, how learning gives rise to asymmetric information between managers and shareholders in decentralized firms. Depending on the quality of the project, the optimal contract between principal and agent distorts investments in ways that has not been examined in the literature. Specifically, in Chapter 1 of the dissertation, I study how governments and corporations auction real investment options using both cash and contingent bids. Examples include sales of natural resource leases, real estate, patents and licenses, and start-up firms with growth options. I incorporate both endogenous auction initiation and post-auction option exercise into the traditional auctions framework, and show that common security bids create moral hazard because the winning bidder's real option differs from the seller's. Consequently, investment could be either accelerated or delayed depending on the security design. Strategic auction timing affects auction initiation, security ranking, equilibrium bidding, and investment; it should be considered jointly with security design and the seller's commitment level. Optimal auction design aligns investment incentives using a combination of down payment and royalty payment, but inefficiently delays sale and investment. I also characterize informal negotiations as timing and signaling games in which bidders can initiate an auction and determine the forms of bids. I show that post-auction investments are efficient and bidding equilibria are equivalent to those of cash auctions. However, in this setting, bidders always initiate the informal auctions inefficiently early. In addition, I provide suggestive evidence for model predictions using data from the leasing and exploration of oil and gas tracts, which leads to several ongoing empirical studies. Altogether, these results reconcile theory with several empirical puzzles and imply novel predictions with policy relevance. In Chapter 2, I examine learning as an important source of managerial flexibility and how it naturally induces information asymmetry in decentralized firms. Timing of learning is crucial for investment decisions, and optimal strategies involve sequential thresholds for learning and investing. Incentive contracts are needed for learning and truthful reporting. The inherent agency conflicts alter investment behavior significantly, and are costly to investors and welfare. But contracting on learning restores efficiency with low future uncertainty or sufficient liquidity. Unlike prior studies, the moral hazard of learning accelerates good projects and delays bad projects. Even the best type's investment is distorted, and only when learning is contractible can adverse selection dominate learning.
Download or read book Three Essays in Corporate Finance written by Bernardino Manuel Pereira Adão and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Corporate Finance written by Vladimir Mukharlyamov and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third chapter, using a novel dataset that allows me to capture the education and career trajectories of over 250,000 employees of 224 bank holding companies, I find that banks with shorter employee tenures and higher fractions of MBAs, top school graduates, and job jumpers performed more poorly during the Great Recession. This relationship is driven by the predisposition of these banks to take on greater risk. These same workforce measures also explain banks' performance in the 1998 crisis. Taken together, my results suggest that investigating workforce measures could be a step towards quantifying components of risk culture or strategy that contribute to financial institutions' vulnerability to crisis.
Download or read book Essays on Corporate Finance written by Worawat Margsiri and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Corporate Finance written by Thomas P. Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this dissertation is to better understand recent trends in U.S. financial markets. The first essay examines whether trade liberalization contributed to the recent decline in U.S. public listing rates and increase in industry concentration. Drawing on heterogeneous firm models of trade, I argue that trade liberalization can lead to within-industry reallocation of market shares by disproportionately harming small firms. I empirically test this hypothesis using a differences-in-differences econometric strategy and find that the "China trade shock" led to i) a decline in public listing rates and an increase in concentration ii) by disproportionately harming small firms iii) that were unable to offshore production and remain competitive against Chinese imports. Stock price reactions to the policy change and threat of reversal by President Trump bolster this interpretation. These findings suggest that public companies today are older, larger, and garner a higher portion of industry revenues, in part, because of fundamental changes in the global competitive landscape. The second essay documents the loosing of financial covenants in syndicated loan agreements over the last twenty years. The loosening of covenants is widespread among all types of borrowers and loans and accompanies an increase in loan spreads over the period, suggesting that the trend reflects fundamental changes in the costs and benefits of tight covenants. The final essay explores how creditors use these control rights to influence corporate outcomes. Following a covenant violation, creditors use their bargaining power to tighten acquisition restrictions and limit acquisition activity, particularly deals expected to earn negative announcement returns. Firms that do announce an acquisition while in violation of a covenant earn 1.8% higher stock returns, on average, with the effect concentrated among firms with weak external governance. These results suggest that creditors provide valuable corporate governance that benefits shareholders by reducing managerial agency costs.
Download or read book Essays in Corporate Finance written by Jin Xu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Essays in Corporate Finance written by Eitan Goldman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Applied Corporate Finance written by Aswath Damodaran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aswath Damodaran, distinguished author, Professor of Finance, and David Margolis, Teaching Fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business, have delivered the newest edition of Applied Corporate Finance. This readable text provides the practical advice students and practitioners need rather than a sole concentration on debate theory, assumptions, or models. Like no other text of its kind, Applied Corporate Finance, 4th Edition applies corporate finance to real companies. It now contains six real-world core companies to study and follow. Business decisions are classified for students into three groups: investment, financing, and dividend decisions.
Download or read book Three Essays in Corporate Finance written by Xia (Summer). Liu and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Corporate Finance written by Mingming Qiu and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Essays on Corporate Finance written by Qiancheng Zheng and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT In the first essay titled "The Value of Strategic Alliances in Acquisitions and IPOs," I investigate how firms' strategic alliance experience affects their valuations as acquisition targets or in IPOs. I propose that strategic alliance experience serves as a valuable signaling device for target and IPO firms, particularly those with more intangible assets and greater opacity. The results show that takeover targets with alliance experience receive higher premiums than those without such experience. More recent alliance experience as well as alliance experience in the same industry also contributes to a larger target gain. Similarly, IPO firms that have alliance experience are shown to obtain higher valuations than those without the experience. Finally, alliance experience increases the likelihood that private firms exit by going public rather than being acquired. In the second essay titled "For Better or For Worse: The Spillover Effect of Innovation Events on Alliance Partners," I examine the spillover effects of breakthrough innovations on the strategic alliance partners of the innovative firm. I find direct stock market evidence that the shareholders of strategic alliance partners significantly benefit from the spillover effects of these innovations. Multivariate analyses indicate that young and newly listed innovator firms with better growth opportunities generate bigger abnormal returns when announcing innovation events and bring larger spillover effects for their alliance partners with similar characteristics. In addition, I explore the risks associated with alliance partnerships, showing that FDA warning letters cause significant wealth losses for both the innovative firm and their alliance partners.
Download or read book Two Essays on Corporate Finance written by Sen Li and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
