Download or read book Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance written by Erik Fernau and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance written by Inga Van den Bongard and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance written by Mario Daniele Amore and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effect of corporate governance and managers on the value of companies has received great attention in the recent public debate. In the academic research, this increased attention has been associated with an effort to develop finer conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques to assess how governance and financial characteristics influence corporate policies and profitability. While theoretical models represent a successful approach under specific hypotheses, the econometric analysis of corporate governance and managerial characteristics has proven to be extremely challenging. Because governance and managerial characteristics are equilibrium outcomes largely determined by the firm itself, it is methodologically difficult to separate out their determinants from their consequences to infer causal effects. Since its infancy the empirical corporate governance and corporate finance research has faced this problem, which is often responsible for mixed empirical results. In my dissertation, I adopt a common methodological framework developed in the "program evaluation" literature to shed new light on the effects of governance and managerial characteristics on a variety of corporate policies and, ultimately, firm performance. In particular, I estimate a class of difference-in-differences models deriving the empirical identifications from policy changes that generate "quasi-natural experiments".
Download or read book Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance written by Mario Daniele Amore and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effect of corporate governance and managers on the value of companies has received great attention in the recent public debate. In the academic research, this increased attention has been associated with an effort to develop finer conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques to assess how governance and financial characteristics influence corporate policies and profitability. While theoretical models represent a successful approach under specific hypotheses, the econometric analysis of corporate governance and managerial characteristics has proven to be extremely challenging. Because governance and managerial characteristics are equilibrium outcomes largely determined by the firm itself, it is methodologically difficult to separate out their determinants from their consequences to infer causal effects. Since its infancy the empirical corporate governance and corporate finance research has faced this problem, which is often responsible for mixed empirical results. In my dissertation, I adopt a common methodological framework developed in the "program evaluation" literature to shed new light on the effects of governance and managerial characteristics on a variety of corporate policies and, ultimately, firm performance. In particular, I estimate a class of difference-in-differences models deriving the empirical identifications from policy changes that generate "quasi-natural experiments".
Download or read book Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance and Governance written by Mattias Nilsson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance and Governance written by Johannes Zaia and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance written by Shage Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Empirical Corporate Finance SET written by Bjørn Espen Eckbo and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 1137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set summarizes recent research on corporate decision-making. The first volume covers measurement and theoretical subjects as well as sources of capital, including banks, public offerings, and private investors. In the second volume, contributors focus on the ways corporations are structured and the practices through which they can be bought and sold. Thus, its major subjects include dividends, capital structure, financial distress, takeovers, restructurings, and managerial incentives. Takes stock of the main empirical findings to date across an unprecedented spectrum of corporate finance issues Discusses everything from econometric methodology, to raising capital and capital structure choice, and to managerial incentives and corporate investment behavior Contributors are leading empirical researchers that remain active in their respective areas of expertise Writing style makes the chapters accessible to industry practitioners
Download or read book Essays on Corporate Finance and Governance written by Johan Molin and published by Stockholm School of Economics Efi Economic Research Institut. This book was released on 1996 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance written by Sumingyue Wang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common thread of the three chapters addresses the abovementioned trends and focuses on the internationalization decisions of both firms and PEs. I try to explore how technology transfer motivations, cultural distance, corporate governance, and country level characteristics affect the choice and performance of these international investments. Some of the research questions I tackle are: does the aim of technology transfer affect the decision of cross-border M&As? How do emerging-market acquirers create value in the international mergers? How would cultural, geographical distance and institutional distance affect the performance of cross-border M&As and the performance of international investments made by PEs?
Download or read book Essays in Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance written by David De Angelis and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation contains three essays in corporate finance and corporate governance. The first essay studies the effect of information frictions across corporate hierarchies on internal capital allocation decisions, using the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) as a quasi-natural experiment. SOX requires firms to enhance their internal controls to improve the reliability of financial reporting across corporate hierarchies. I find that after SOX, the capital allocation decision in conglomerates is more sensitive to performance as reported by the business segments. The effects are most pronounced when conglomerates are prone to information problems within the organization and least pronounced when they still suffer from internal control weaknesses after SOX. Moreover, conglomerates' productivity and market value relative to stand-alone firms increase after SOX. These results support the argument that inefficiencies in the capital allocation process are partly due to information frictions. My findings also shed light on some unintended effects of SOX on large and complex firms. The second essay is co-authored with Yaniv Grinstein and investigates how firms tie CEO compensation to performance. We take advantage of new compensation disclosure requirements issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2006. Firms vary in their choice of performance measures and horizons, and in their reliance on pre-specified goals. Consistent with optimal contracting theories, we find that firms choose performance measures that are more informative of CEO actions, and rely less on pre-specified goals when it is more costly to contract on CEO actions. The third essay investigates the design of division managers (DMs) incentive contracts again taking advantage of the disclosure requirements. I find that firms do not use relative performance evaluation across divisions and that in general most of DM compensation incentives are associated with firm performance instead of division performance. Furthermore, division performance-based incentives tend to be smaller in complex firms, when within-organization conflicts are potentially more severe. I also find that when the probability of promotion to CEO is lower, DM ownership requirements are more stringent and DM compensation incentives are greater. These results support notions that influence costs as well as promotion-based incentives are important considerations in designing DMs contracts.
Download or read book Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance written by A. Burak Güner and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance written by Francesca Toscano and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Corporate Finance written by Jennifer L. Dlugosz and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furthermore, we find that banks that participate on both sides of the market, arranging loans and underwriting CLOs, may use private information gained in the lending process to direct loans with more stable credit quality towards their own CLOs. The third essay, written jointly with Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Paul Gompers, and Andrew Metrick, contributes to the empirical corporate governance literature. Large blocks of stock play an important role in many finance studies, yet there is no standardized data set that tracks them. Further, the best available data source has many mistakes and biases. We document these mistakes, show how to fix them, and demonstrate the impact in a regression framework. For researchers who need to work outside of this sample, we test the efficacy of alternative fixes and fmd that truncating or winsorizing can reduce about half of the bias in our representative application.
Download or read book Essays on Empirical Corporate Governance written by Bernd Albrecht and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance written by Felipe Aldunate and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis studies how government regulation affects firms' financial and governance decisions. In the first chapter I examine how deregulation in the railroad industry affects CEO-firm matches and firms' performance. I exploit the 1980 Staggers Rail Act, which introduced competition to the highly regulated freight railroad industry. The results show that after the deregulation there was an increase in CEO turnover and in the percentage of CEOs with business education and with broader work experience. I also find that CEO turnover was less related to firm performance in the deregulated period. The next two chapters study the unintended consequences of two different types of financial regulation, which intended to protect consumers. In Chapter 2, I use the introduction of state deposit guarantee systems in the early 20th century as a quasi-natural experiment to study its effects on the banking system. I find that insured banks experienced higher growth rates than uninsured banks. However, I find no effects of deposit insurance on failure rates, or risk taking proxied by leverage and illiquid assets holdings. Finally, Chapter 3 analyzes the effects of double liability for banks' shareholders in the United States during the Great Depression. In case of a bank failure, shareholders subject to double liability could not only lose their equity, but an additional amount equal to the par value of their shares. My coauthors and I find that single-liability banks were riskier than double-liability banks in terms of their asset allocation. We also conclude that an unintended effect was the higher exit rates via merger or voluntary liquidation of double-liability banks. This is consistent with the hypothesis that in the presence of double liability, shareholders decide to liquidate their investment earlier to avoid risking their personal assets in case of failure.
Download or read book Corporate Governance written by Joachim Schwalbach and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate Governance is a subject of great interest to academics, investors, and politicians throughout the world. Corporate governance is associated with the way firms are managed and controlled. Countries have adopted different governance systems to resolve the corporate governance issues. Anglo-Saxon systems differ from European and Japanese systems, and Eastern Europe and China, for instance, experiment with the way private organizations should be governed. Despite the great interest and intense debate, empirical evidence on the effectiveness of various governance systems is still sparse. This book brings together most current contributions from various perspectives and from an international angle. The book is an essential reading for academics, university students, practitioners, investors, politicians, and legislators.
