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CEO's Culture and Firms' Leverage Decisions

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Debt mitigates agency problems between managers and stockholders by reducing free cashflows; yet, why managers voluntarily adopt debt discipline remains unclear. This paper examines how chief executive officers' (CEOs') managerial traits, shaped by national culture, influence leverage decisions.
Supun Chandrasena   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing the evolutionary pathway: on the origin of mitochondria and eukaryogenesis

open access: yesThe FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
This study examines the stepwise transition from archaeal–bacterial associations to the emergence of eukaryotic cells. Metabolic cooperation and endosymbiosis fostered ecological and genetic integration, with extensive gene transfer reshaping host biology.
J. Ernesto Bravo‐Arévalo
wiley   +1 more source

Implicit Promises and the Timing of Defined‐Benefit Pension Plan Freezes

open access: yesFinancial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms time defined‐benefit (DB) plan freezes after CEO turnovers to protect CEO retirement benefits from cost cuts affecting the wider workforce. We document a significant increase in voluntary CEO turnovers just before the freeze, without notable post‐freeze changes.
Zacharias Petrou, Adamos Vlittis
wiley   +1 more source

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