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Pressure‐Driven Cash Holdings Under Biodiversity Risk
ABSTRACT This study examines how biodiversity risk affects corporate cash holdings and the mechanisms shaping this relationship. We find that firms facing higher biodiversity risk significantly increase cash reserves. Internal CSR governance and external institutional pressures both reinforce precautionary cash policies, highlighting the importance of ...
Kangding Wang, Tongbin Xu, Min Yang
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Board Independence and Adjustment Speed of CEO Inside Debt
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
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The Effect of Traffic Congestion on Labour Investment Efficiency
ABSTRACT The study examines the effects of headquarters‐city traffic congestion on labour investment efficiency. The results indicate that firms headquartered in congested cities may engage in inefficient labour investment decisions. Further analysis indicates that the inefficiency is associated with both overinvestment and underinvestment in labour ...
Rajib Chowdhury
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This study is performed to effect of earnings management, roe and company size of dividend payout ratio. The object of the research was service company (telecommunications, transportation, hospitality, tour and travel) which go public in indonesia.
Yosy arisandy
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Employment Protection and Bank Dividends: Evidence From Wrongful Discharge Laws
ABSTRACT Using the staggered adoption of the good faith exception to U.S. wrongful discharge laws, we examine the causal effect of employment protection and firing costs on bank dividend payouts. We find stronger employment protection significantly reduces dividends, with good faith adoption lowering payouts by 7% relative to the mean. In line with the
Alessio Bongiovanni, Joshua Cave
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ANALYZING THE DYNAMICS OF FIRM SIZE AND INVESTMENT ON DIVIDEND POLICY OF QUOTED FIRMS IN GHANA
This work was conducted to determine how firm size, investment, inflation, and government effectiveness influence dividend policies proxy by dividend payout of quoted firms in Ghana.
Mavis Akolor, Tripti Gujral
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Life Cycle Consumption and Portfolio Choice Under Real Interest Rate Risk
ABSTRACT We set up a life cycle model with real interest rate risk to demonstrate that real interest rates have implications for optimal household consumption and investments. Lower interest rates lead to higher optimal stock investments and lower consumption.
Marcel Fischer, Natascha Jankowski
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ABSTRACT We examine how US cross‑listing shapes the sensitivity of non‑US firms’ home‑market liquidity to economic policy uncertainty (EPU). Using a matched global panel of 1894 American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and comparable non‐cross‑listed firms from 20 countries between 1997 and 2024, we separately identify the effects of home‑country EPU and US
Fnu Pratima, Sanjiv Sabherwal
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This study examines the fundamental factors that influence the dividend payout policy, namely leverage, liquidity, free cash flow, firm size, firm growth, business risk and profitability.
Rico Eka Wahyu Hudiwijono +2 more
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Early‐Life Disaster Exposure and the Investment Response to Monetary Policy
ABSTRACT We place CEOs' formative experiences at the center of analyzing how firms respond to monetary policy. Specifically, we examine how early‐life exposure to natural disasters shapes CEOs’ investment behavior following monetary shocks. CEOs with exposure to moderate natural disasters during their formative years exhibit stronger risk‐taking ...
Samer Adra +3 more
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