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The first bear raid and squeeze: Isaac Le Maire and the Dutch East India Company

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a bear raid by a syndicate of short sellers led by Isaac Le Maire, a former director. We reconstruct the forward trade between 1607 and 1611, the actions taken by the syndicate members, and the responses to these actions by the company.
Oscar Gelderblom   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Free to choose: Bank capital in Britain, 1878–1939

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Government regulation of the banking sector is pervasive, making it difficult to empirically analyse when banks would voluntarily choose to issue equity if there were no minimum requirements on capital adequacy. A unique historical setting occurred in the late nineteenth‐century United Kingdom when joint‐stock banks were free to choose their ...
Gareth Campbell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bankruptcy Prediction Models: A Comparative Analysis

open access: yes
This thesis investigates the effectiveness of machine learning models in predicting bankruptcy among Italian companies, leveraging financial ratios derived from balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements. By analyzing data from 255,919 companies, including 28,360 bankrupt firms, spanning 1996 to 2023, this study addresses the critical ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Bankruptcy Prediction by Generalized Additive Models

open access: yes, 2005
We compare several accounting based models for bankruptcy prediction. The models are developed and tested on large data sets containing annual financial statements for Norwegian limited liability firms. Out-of-sample and out-of-time validation shows that generalized additive models significantly outperform popular models like linear discriminant ...
openaire   +1 more source

Too good to be true? A systematic literature review about the ambivalent consequences and managerial challenges of purpose implementation

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Corporate purpose has rapidly gained prominence in management literature and is considered a highly influential concept in business, promising to enable businesses' transformative power. While most existing studies highlight the positive outcomes of incorporating purpose into organizational frameworks, some research highlights negative ...
Nicole Steller, Guido Möllering
wiley   +1 more source

Board Independence and Adjustment Speed of CEO Inside Debt

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We find that firms with more independent directors adjust CEO inside debt towards an optimum more quickly. This effect is more pronounced in financially unconstrained, growth, and under‐levered firms, and also firms led by more powerful or overconfident CEOs.
Bonnie Buchanan, Shuhui Wang, Tina Yang
wiley   +1 more source

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