Download or read book Essays on Corporate Cash Holdings and Business Groups written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaebol firms with financial subsidiaries, which can provide alternative financial resources, can reduce cash holdings. I also find that diversification contributes to lower the level of cash in chaebols. Both sources became more important after the crisis.The results also suggest that the smaller amount of cash in business groups is driven by a smaller need for precautionary cash.

Download or read book Business Network Corporate Liquidity and Stakeholders of the Firm written by Ruoran Gao and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My research builds on the view that firms are not standalone entities, but rather, they are inter-connected into a large business network through input-output relationships. Firms interact closely with their major stakeholders, such as customers, suppliers, and creditors, and such interactions have profound influences on firm policies and their access to financing. In my dissertation, I explore the impact of these connections on corporate liquidity management and financing decisions. The first essay studies a business network based on customersupplier relations, and how a firm's connectivity in the network can affect firmlevel policies. The second essay is a joint study with Prof. Yaniv Grinstein. It examines one important aspect of corporate internal liquidity, cash holdings, and its relationship with firm-specific and economy-wide uncertainties. The third essay explores the interaction between interfirm connections and bank-lending decisions. More specifically, how a firm's connections with a bank's existing borrowers affect the bank's lending decision to the firm.

Download or read book Essays on Top Management and Corporate Behavior written by Hui-Ting Wu and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Two Essays on Managerial Horizon Cash Holdings and Earnings Management written by Sanjib Guha and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Cash Holdings Governance and Firm Valuation written by Ying Huang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three essays in this dissertation. First essay provides empirical evidence that agency cost is a significant determinant of firms’ cash holdings. We reach the following three conclusions: (i) firms’ cash holdings increase in the strength of investor protection, (ii) excess cash holdings are valued more with better investor protection, and (iii) cross-listed firms that improve investor protection through “bonding” hold relatively more cash than non-cross-listed firms. In the second essay, we find that consistent with agency theory and free cash flow hypothesis, the effect of the combination of excess cash and strong governance on firm valuation varies by firms’ investment opportunities and acquisitions. We find a value-added effect of excess cash for firms with strong governance when there is low level of free cash flow and acquisitions. On the contrary, for firms with high free cash flow that engage in acquisitions, the combination of excess cash and governance does not add value. Further, poor investment opportunities are value-destroying, although excess cash adds value for firms with stronger governance regardless of the level capital expenditure. In the third essay, we find that there is a uniform co-movement liquidity beyond the BBO as measured by strings. The liquidity beyond the BBO is ubiquitously invariant across trading days, while remarkably variant across securities. The variations of depth and the variations of immediacy needed for the common movement of liquidity beyond BBO, however for the first time, are found to be moderate and large respectively across trading days. These aspects of liquidity beyond the BBO are positively correlated with return volatility of strings.

Download or read book Cash Holdings and Business Group Membership written by Rosy Locorotondo and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the cash policies of business group members (i.e., affiliates). Using a panel dataset of private Belgian affiliates and comparable non-affiliated firms, the empirical results show that business group affiliates hold significantly smaller amounts of cash as compared to non-affiliated firms. This finding is consistent with the notion that affiliates can afford to keep lower cash reserves because these firms can access the internal capital market of the group. The analysis also combines affiliate level and group level data to evaluate cash drivers and shows that groups in financial distress reduce cash holdings in affiliates. However, affiliates that are more important for the group's reputation and operations maintain cash levels comparable to affiliates belonging to financially healthy groups.

Download or read book Essays on Corporate Governance of Financial and Non Financial Firms written by Ling Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate governance of financial and non-financial firms is critical in modern corporations with diffuse stock ownership, which deals with the agency conflicts between managers and shareholders. Corporate governance has a profound impact on various corporate policy, and firm value in the end. This study examines the importance of corporate governance and its influences on various corporate policy and firm value and risks for both financial and non-financial firms. Chapter 1 investigates the association between the firm's liquidity level and liquidity mix on the one hand and CEO entrenchment on the other. CEO entrenchment may distort the firms' liquidity policy because managers and shareholders may have conflicting preferences between cash and lines of credit. Using lines of credit data from 1996 to 2008, we find five main results. First, entrenched CEOs hold more liquidity as measured by the sum of cash and lines of credit. Second, entrenched managers have a preference for cash over lines of credit because while cash gives them flexibility, lines of credit are accompanied with bank restrictions and monitoring. Third, entrenched CEOs also use more lines of credit because of the extra liquidity it provides, despite the associated bank monitoring. Fourth, entrenched CEOs in smaller and opaque firms tend to hold more liquidity. Five, entrenched CEO's preference for cash versus lines of credit is stronger for large and transparent firms, compared to small and opaque firms. These findings imply that firms should better align the interests of the entrenched managers with those of the shareholders in order to limit the excessive liquidity holding of firms when CEOs are entrenched and to thereby increase firms' profitability. Chapter 2 examines the relationship between bank holding company (BHC) performance, risk and "busy" board of directors, an overlooked dimension of corporate governance in the banking literature. Busy directors are defined as directors with three or more directorships. The sample covers the 2001-2010 period. We employ a simultaneous equation framework and estimate the models employing the three stage least square (3SLS) technique in order to account for endogeneity. Several interesting results are obtained. First, BHC performance, as measured by return on assets (ROA), Tobin's Q and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) over total assets is positively associated with busy directors. Second, BHC total risk (standard deviation of stock returns), market risk (market beta), idiosyncratic risk (standard errors of the CAPM model) credit risk (percentage of non-performing assets over total assets) and default risk (HigherZ-Score) are inversely related to it. Third, busy directors are not more likely to become problem directors, in the sense of failing the meeting-attendance-criterion (75% attendance). Fourth, the benefits of having busy directors in terms of performance improvement strengthened but the benefits of risk reduction declined during the recent financial crisis These findings partially alleviate concerns that when directors become too busy with multiple directorships, they shirk their responsibilities. Major implications for investors, regulators, and firm managers are drawn. Chapter 3 investigates the effect of CEO entrenchment on the loan syndication structure. Over the past decade, syndicated loans have played an increasingly important role in corporate financing. Unlike a traditional bank loan with only a single creditor, a syndicated loan involves a group of lenders: a lead arranger and a number of participant lenders. The syndication process, therefore, generates an additional dimension of agency problem between the lead arranger and the participant lenders, besides the traditional agency cost of debt between the borrowing firm and the lender (Diamond, 1984; Holmstrom and Tirole, 1997). Several results are obtained about syndicated loans made to firms with more entrenched CEOs. First, in these loans the number of participant lenders and their share in the loan are smaller; the lead arranger retains a larger loan share. Second, these loans are more closely held resulting in a higher Herfindahl index of loan concentration. Third, foreign lenders are less involved in these loans. Specifically, the number of foreign lenders and the percentage of loans held by foreign lenders are both smaller. Our findings shed light on the two types of agency problems associated with the syndicated loans, and have great implication for the firms' shareholders, creditors and regulators.

Download or read book Accounting for a Simplified Firm Owning Depreciable Assets written by Accounting Research International Association and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Quarterly Essay 10 Bad Company written by Gideon Haigh and published by Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd.. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bad Company Gideon Haigh scrutinises the way we have turned CEOs into tin gods. Is moral outrage the appropriate response to the collapses of Enron or HIH or are we all implicated in a crazy system? Haigh argues that the attempt to create great entrepreneurs of the new caste of CEOs by giving them shares is doomed to failure and inherently absurd. In a tough-minded, vigorous demolition job on the culture that produced the cult of the CEO, Haigh writes a mini-history of business and shows how the classic traditions of capitalism are mocked by the managerialism of the present. ‘The making of the modern CEO has been a story of more: more power, more discretion, more ownership, more money, more demands, more expectations and, above all, more illusions. More, as so often, has brought less ...’ —Gideon Haigh, Bad Company ‘The world where the CEO is deemed to be a 'genius' at least equal to a great actor or a great sportsman is a world in which ... Gideon Haigh refuses to believe.’ —Peter Craven ‘Of all the extraordinary corporate stories of the 1990s, none has been more powerful than what Gideon Haigh wants to call the cult of the CEO.’ —Sydney Morning Herald ‘Haigh should be showered with blessings for producing a book which not only says boo to these geese, but has the figures and the historical perspective to back itself up. There’s even some good business advise in there.’ —Nicholas Lezard, the Guardian ‘A cogent and elegant argument.’ —Business Review Weekly Gideon Haigh has worked as a journalist for the Bulletin, the Guardian, the Australian, the Times and the Monthly. As an author he has written books on business, including Quarterly Essay 10: Bad Company – The Cult of the CEO, The Battle for BHP and One of a Kind: The Story of Bankers Trust Australia 1969–1999, and on cricket: Silent Revolutions, Game for Anything, The Green and Golden Age.

Download or read book The Art of Taming the Business written by Vallabhi Ey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE All the business chapters in this book were written as assignments by the author as an MBA (Management of Business Administration) student in University of Northampton. There are thirteen altogether, some are essays and some are reports. Most of these were written with an intention that these could be published one day. Also the chapters were written with an idea that it should not just reach business readers but also general readers who want to know business or just have an interesting read. The first two chapters are part of the often hyped Business subject the Marketing and the chapters are a case study about marketing a product and the study of various marketing orientation and planning principles adopted by organizations across the globe. The next chapter (Chapter III) is a case study on Organizational Strategy and the application of different strategic models for the chosen company. It also suggests future action plan and does a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) Analysis for that plan. Chapter IV, V and VI are part of Operations management and all three are case studies and the first two are of two American Car companies and the third one is about American Defence. Chapter IV is about performance measurement and chapter V is about Lean Management and chapter VI is about Total Quality Management. The next chapter (Chapter VII) is something that is more relevant to the current age of economic crisis than anything else which is the Corporate Recovery. This is again a case study of an American Airline company. The next two chapters (Chapters VIII and IX) are about people management and about handling of downsizing and enhancing the organizational behaviour. Chapter X is about Corporate Finance and presents an investment portfolio analysis for the Young's Brewery to acquire a stake in other related companies. Chapter XI is about Cross cultural management for doing business in UK, India and France and how to understand and handle cross cultural issues. The cross culture models are used in such a way that it would be easy for readers to do the same for other countries as well. Chapter XII is about the recent nationalisation problems encountered by the West and some possible solutions. Chapter XIII is about Future Leaders and concludes with Jesus' words!

Download or read book Corporate Groups and Shadow Business Practices written by Linn Anker-Sørensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uniqueness of this book is its conceptualization of a corporate group as a system of interaction, comprised of nodes, links and internal governance tools. This framework can be used to understand what constitutes a group, based on affiliation-linkages. By increasing our perception of group-structuring we can assess the extent to which existing laws address all variables. If the law does not consider certain variables to be used for identifying groups, a case of shadow business may be identified. Group-transparency is a recurring topic on the regulatory agenda. In this book, three legal domains are analysed questioning whether specific amendments have led to increased group-transparency: the control-definition for consolidated accounts, shareholder-transparency in company law, and major holding disclosure in listed companies. This book identifies deficiencies of the law in obtaining its regulatory objective of group-transparency, and proposes an interpretative solution based on Systems Thinking.

Download or read book Comparative Corporate Governance written by Klaus J. Hopt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate governance has become an important issue in all industrial economies. This text has grown out of a conference entitled Comparative Corporate Governance, An International Conference, United States - Japan - Western Europe which considered the subject.

Download or read book International Corporate Governance written by Kose John and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents research on corporate governance from a number of countries across the world, including the United States, Spain, Malaysia, Israel and others. This title examines many important corporate governance mechanisms, such as board characteristics, ownership structure, legal protection of shareholders, and annual general meetings.

Download or read book Technological Change and Technology Strategy written by Robert E. Evenson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretical contributions; Technological infrastructure; Technological assets and development; International flows of technology; Technological investment in the private sector; Returns to technological activities; Policy issues.

Download or read book The Essays of Warren Buffett written by Lawrence A. Cunningham and published by Carolina Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third edition of this international best seller, Lawrence Cunningham brings you the latest wisdom from Warren Buffett’s annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. New material addresses: the financial crisis and its continuing implications for investors, managers and society; the housing bubble at the bottom of that crisis; the debt and derivatives excesses that fueled the crisis and how to deal with them; controlling risk and protecting reputation in corporate governance; Berkshire’s acquisition and operation of Burlington Northern Santa Fe; the role of oversight in heavily regulated industries; investment possibilities today; and weaknesses of popular option valuation models. Some other material has been rearranged to deepen the themes and lessons that the collection has always produced: Buffett’s “owner-related business principles” are in the prologue as a separate subject and valuation and accounting topics are spread over four instead of two sections and reordered to sharpen their payoff. Media coverage is available at the following links: Interviews/Podcasts: Motley Fool, click here. Money, Riches and Wealth, click here. Manual of Ideas, click here. Corporate Counsel, click here. Reviews: William J. Taylor, ABA Banking Journal, click here. Bob Morris, Blogging on Business, click here. Pamela Holmes, Saturday Evening Post, click here. Kevin M. LaCroix, D&O Diary, click here. Blog Posts: On Finance issues (Columbia University), click here. On Berkshire post-Buffett (Manual of Ideas), click here. On Publishing the book (Value Walk), click here. On Governance issues (Harvard University blog), click here. Featured Stories/Recommended Reading: Motley Fool, click here. Stock Market Blog, click here. Motley Fool Interviews with LAC at Berkshire's 2013 Annual Meeting Berkshire Businesses: Vastly Different, Same DNA, click here. Is Berkshire's Fat Wallet an Enemy to Its Success?, click here. Post-Buffett Berkshire: Same Question, Same Answer, click here. How a Disciplined Value Approach Works Across the Decades, click here. Through the Years: Constant Themes in Buffett's Letters, click here. Buffett's Single Greatest Accomplishment, click here. Where Buffett Is Finding Moats These Days, click here. How Buffett Has Changed Through the Years, click here. Speculating on Buffett's Next Acquisition, click here. Buffett Says “Chief Risk Officers” Are a Terrible Mistake, click here. Berkshire Without Buffett, click here.

Download or read book Perspectives on Economics and Management written by Saibal Ghosh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of economics and management is being reshaped in more ways than one including rapid advancements in technology and business practices. This book weaves together a diverse set of issues such as consumption patterns, wealth disparities and the management, behaviour and financial health of businesses and consumers to analyse the effectiveness of economic and business strategies. Rapid technological advancements along with the need for cost-effectiveness and convenience are making service providers embrace technology as a partner rather than a tool in their economic journey. Relatedly, traditional management philosophy is coming under a scanner, with an increasing emphasis on holistic development of the organization, rather than a top-down approach, as has been the case in the past. Understanding major developments in economic and financial policymaking has perennially been a key concern of public policy, shaped by recent global and related developments, this has necessitated a relook at these issues, couched in a cross-cutting perspective. Viewed from this standpoint, the present volume, written to honour the rich academic work of the eminent economist Professor Anindya Sen intersects this triad of economics, finance and public policy that are integral to policy thinking and its formulation. The smorgasbord of research ideas, involving both theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, presented in this volume, provides useful perspectives on the drivers that are continually reshaping the dynamism in the world around us and, in the process, integrates a multidisciplinary perspective of focusing on several pertinent policy challenges. This book will be useful to researchers and students of economics, finance and public policy, economic theorists, microeconomics, and even to those with a broader canvass such as researchers in macroeconomics, international economics, business, management and marketing.

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, has 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.