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Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?
Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Vertical consolidation of small local authorities providing neighborhood services and large authorities providing strategic services into unitary authorities is assumed to improve financial condition by creating new economies of scale and scope.
Rhys Andrews, Dennis De Widt
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The Effects of Information Technologies on the Bankruptcy Decision
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Exploiting the staggered adoptions of electronic systems across 70 bankruptcy courts in the United States, I investigate the impacts of digital transformation on bankruptcy behavior. The digital transformation in bankruptcy courts significantly lowered the cost of filing by enabling debtors to file for bankruptcy online, yet empirical tests ...
Jeyul Yang
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Shareholder Activism: Affliction for Incumbent CEOs?
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study how shareholder activism shapes CEO careers by distinguishing between two competing hypotheses: discipline and reallocation. Employing a control function approach with expected mutual fund fire sales and purchases as exclusion restrictions, we analyze 3799 US campaigns from 2006 to 2018.
Jana P. Fidrmuc +2 more
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Dual‐Class Firms and Voluntary Disclosure of Earnings Guidance
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper shows that dual‐class firms issue more quarterly management earnings guidance, particularly when the guidance contains negative news. This effect is driven by the fact that insiders in dual‐class firms maintain sufficient control to be isolated from market pressure and disciplinary outcomes following disclosure.
Arash Dayani
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Control Overhang and Owner Financial Constraints: Evidence From Equity Issuance
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Under the debt overhang problem, firms approaching distress issue too little equity because new capital primarily benefits creditors. We identify an additional mechanism—control overhang—that further suppresses equity issuance for firms with controlling owners. As distress risk rises, equity issuance discounts steepen, and each unit of capital
Jens Forssbæck +2 more
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Should fiscal policies be centralized in a monetary union? A dynamic game approach. [PDF]
Cent Eur J Oper Res, 2023 Blueschke D +2 more
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CEO Self‐Regulation and the Cost of Equity Capital
Financial Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We explore the association between CEO self‐regulation and the cost of equity capital by distinguishing between two dimensions of regulatory focus—promotion focus and prevention focus—based on Higgins' (1997) framework. A promotion focus prioritizes positive stimuli, accomplishment, and growth, while a prevention focus emphasizes negative ...
Ann Ling‐Ching Chan, Kyunghwa Yu
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Political Accountability During Crises: Evidence From 40 Years of Financial Policies
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We show that politicians facing a binding term limit are more likely to engage in financial deliberalization than those facing reelection, but only in the wake of a financial crisis. In particular, they implement policies that tend to favor incumbent financial institutions over the general population, such as increasing barriers to entry in ...
Orkun Saka, Yuemei Ji, Clement Minaudier
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A Quantile Model of Firm Investment
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Are firms risk averse? We propose a dynamic model of firm investment under uncertainty that captures firms' risk attitudes through quantile preferences. The firm maximizes its present value, defined as current profits and investment plus the discounted value of the τ$\tau$‐quantile of its value next period.
Heitor Almeida +3 more
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International Journal of Auditing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using data pertaining to China's mandatory two‐signature regime, under which a certified public accountant licensed as an audit manager can serve as an audit report signatory, we examine whether reallocating accountability within the audit engagement team is associated with audit quality.
Yanming Cao +3 more
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