Regarding the factors influencing corporate capital structure, the above authors typically used the following factors in their research models: firm size, tangible fixed assets, growth opportunities, profitability, liquidity, debt tax shield and tax corporate incom[r]
Conflict of Interest within Public Accounting Firms Caused by Horizontal Integration O ver the past few decades public accounting firms have been expanding their services to include more than strictly external audit services. This horizontal integration, however, has caused a gre[r]
maintain a great deal of freedom! Then why do firms exist? What is the incentive – driving force – behind firms? For that matter, what is a firm in the first place? University of Chicago Law and Economics Professor Ronald Coase, on whose classic work “The Nature of the Firm” m[r]
4.3.1 Credit constraint We first examine how the credit market development promotes firms’ innovation incentives and outcomes through alleviating firms’ credit constraints. We hypothesis that if financial intermediaries can effectively alleviate firms’ credit constraints th[r]
attractive strategy for bearish investors, short selling is a risky and costly investment strategy. Diamond and Verrecchia (1987) suggest that short sellers must be informed traders who are confident about their position, and short sellers will not trade unless they expect the price to fall suff[r]
STANDARDIZED SERVICE FIRMS PROVIDE SYNDICATED MARKETING RESEARCH SERVICES, AS OPPOSED TO SYNDICATED DATA, TO CUSTOMIZED SERVICE FIRMS OFFER A VARIETY OF TRANG 10 Ch 3 10 INDUSTRY STRUCTU[r]
Subsequent authors, controlling for other potential determinants of profitability, ran the following simple cross-industry regression: 12 y i D ˇ 0 C ˇ 2 H i C ˇ 0 X i C " i ; where y was a measure of profitability (performance) such as the Lerner index .P MC/=P or the accounting return on[r]
7. Industry X is characterized by perfect competition, so every firm in the industry is earning zero economic profit. If the product price falls, no firms can survive. Do you agree or disagree? Discuss. Disagree. As the market price falls, firms cut their production. If price[r]
However, the worker-owned firm would be fraught with other competitive difficulties. Because of their risk aversion, workers would demand higher rates of return on their investments, a fact that would likely restrict their investments and lower their competitiveness and viability over the long r[r]
Firms’ financial performances after IPOs are also examined, providing us information on whether the firms have achieved their perceived benefits from IPOs on that TRANG 7 vi LIST OF TABL[r]
The presence and operations of foreign service firms have also raised growing concerns regarding the competitive position of local service firms. However, after more than 30 years of the Doi Moi, little is known about whether there are differences in the service-oriented human resource practices wit[r]
In this chapter we examine the behavior of competitive firms, such as your local gas station. After completing this chapter, students will be able to learn what characteristics make a market competitive, examine how competitive firms decide how much output to produce, examine how competitive firms d[r]
In this chapter we examine the behavior of competitive firms, such as your local gas station. After completing this chapter, students will be able to learn what characteristics make a market competitive, examine how competitive firms decide how much output to produce, examine how competitive firms d[r]
Compared to other types of firms, the effect of credit market development on private firms’ innovation outcomes is 0.09% higher under fixed effect regression and 0.59% higher under Tobit[r]
In practice, numerous instruments can be found with which individual profes- sional service firms try to create and/or to promote in particular internal knowledge transparency. As an example of a system to identify and distribute knowledge Ernst & Young’s ‘centers of business knowledge’ h[r]
The study found that the firms which hold cash above the optimal level of cash holdings have higher speed of adjustment than the firms which hold cash below the optimal level. Financially constrained (FC) firms also adjust their cash holdings faster than financially unconstrained (FUC) firms but hig[r]
The finding shows that stock repurchase announcements result in a positive and significant valuation effect for both announcing firms and rival firms in Vietnam. Furthermore, the degree of signal to the industry is conditional on the degree of signal about the announcing firms as a contagious effect[r]
full at maturity on the original terms. 4 Likewise, a syndicated loan may involve a holdout problem if some banks in the syndicate reject softer terms or new credit lines ~ McConnell and Servaes ~ 1991 !! . The successful exchange offers in this sample typically had participation rates of more t[r]
We investigate determinants of firms’ direction of trade by using panel data of Vietnam’s footwear firms for the 2006-2010 period. Since no variance was found between firms, a pooled multinomial logit model is consequently preferable. Notably, the economies of scale show positive and significant eff[r]