Results 231 to 240 of about 9,971 (286)

Do Portuguese private firms follow pecking order financing?

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Finance, 2015
This paper tests for pecking order behavior in medium-sized private Portuguese firms. In contrast to the usual split between internal funds, debt, and external equity, we separate debt into four components – cheap trade credits (CTC), bank loans (BL ...
Jan Bartholdy   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Pecking order

Science Translational Medicine, 2015
Pigeons distinguish clinically relevant features on breast screening pathology slides but not x-ray images.
openaire   +1 more source

Girls, pecking order and smoking

Social Science & Medicine, 1997
Against a background of growing concern about the failure to reduce cigarette smoking amongst young people, particularly girls, this paper attempts to unravel the complex interrelationships between smoking, peer group structure and gender. We were particularly intrigued to explore a recent hypothesis in the literature that suggests that girls who smoke,
L, Michell, A, Amos
openaire   +2 more sources

Time-varying managerial overconfidence and pecking order preference [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2017
This paper examines whether managerial overconfidence enhances or weakens pecking order preference. We construct time-varying managerial words-based (i.e. tone of Chairman’s Statement) and action-based (i.e.
Andrew Vivian, Bin Xu
exaly   +3 more sources

Pecking orders

Ethnography, 2008
The article examines male and female inmate graffiti in a decommissioned Australian jail, a holding facility attached to the former Melbourne Magistrates Court. While male graffitists were preoccupied chiefly with personal identity, power and vengeance, the women used graffiti to build networks and alliances in order to cope with life inside.
openaire   +1 more source

Establishing a Pecking Order

The Mathematical Gazette, 1971
This study was suggested by C. S. Ogilvy’s “Tomorrow’s Math”, which poses: “A weighing problem which has been going the rounds of some mathematical communities is the problem of the balls. Given n distinguishable balls, of which it is known that no two have the same weight, it is required ...
openaire   +1 more source

International Pecking Orders

2016
In any multilateral setting, some state representatives weigh much more heavily than others. Practitioners often refer to this form of diplomatic hierarchy as the 'international pecking order'. This book is a study of international hierarchy in practice, as it emerges out of the multilateral diplomatic process. Building on the social theories of Erving
openaire   +1 more source

Explaining Peck Order in Domestic Chickens

Bird Behavior, 1985
Dominance interactions and dominance relationships between chickens can be explained by assuming that the birds decide to fight or submit in an interaction by assessing their probability of success. This is achieved by examining cues that indicate an opponent's dominance ability.
openaire   +3 more sources

International Pecking Order

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
Egemen Eren, Semyon Malamud, Haonan Zhou
openaire   +1 more source

Peck Order

2021
openaire   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy