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Abstract Firm innovation and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are key strategic considerations that shape a firm's competitiveness and sustainability. However, studies exploring the relationship between the two are heterogeneous and sometimes obtain contradictory results, making it difficult to draw clear conclusions.
Daniel Alonso‐Martínez +2 more
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The Detection Method of the Tobit Model in a Dataset
This article proposes an extension of detection methods for the Tobit model by generalizing existing approaches from cases with known parameters to more realistic scenarios where the parameters are unknown.
El ouali Rahmani, Mohammed Benmoumen
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How Regulatory Costs Impede Financial Technology Gains
ABSTRACT While financial technology innovation lowers intermediation costs, regulatory frictions may prevent these gains from reaching long‐term investors and borrowers. Using variation in retail investor participation driven by state securities registration lapses in peer‐to‐peer lending, we demonstrate that regulatory frictions are associated with ...
Shyam Venkatesan +2 more
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Risk Perceptions and Corporate Financing Behavior
ABSTRACT Using a recently developed measure of financial market risk perceptions, we show that risk perceptions affect firm‐level corporate financing behavior. Firms tend to adjust their capital structures to cater to investors' appetite for risk. When perceived risks are low, firms tend to choose more leveraged capital structures to take advantage of ...
Youngmin Choi +2 more
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Brand Equity and Debt Diversification
ABSTRACT This study examines how brand equity influences the diversity of firms’ debt structures. We propose that brand equity, by signaling larger and more stable future cash flows and greater product market awareness, alters the fundamental trade‐offs that drive optimal debt type diversity.
David C. Mauer +2 more
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Political Partisanship and State‐Level Bank Efficiency
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between political partisanship and commercial bank efficiency in the United States from 1972 to 2020, assessing the persistent influence of political affiliations at the state and District of Columbia levels. Bank efficiency scores are estimated using a double‐bootstrap approach, and the analysis is conducted within
Jeremy Eng‐Tuck Cheah +3 more
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To Acquire or to Ally? Foreign Competition and Firm Boundary
ABSTRACT This study examines how foreign competition influences firms’ external growth strategies. Exploiting staggered US import tariff reductions as a quasi‐natural experiment, we find that heightened competition leads firms to expand their use of strategic alliances.
Hanwen Sun +3 more
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Evidence Gathering Under Competitive and Noncompetitive Rewards
ABSTRACT Reward schemes may affect not only agents' effort but also their incentives to gather information in order to reduce the riskiness of the productive activity. In a laboratory experiment using a novel task, we find that the relationship between incentives and evidence gathering depends critically on the availability of information about peers ...
Philip Brookins +2 more
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Household portfolio allocation and stock market beliefs: Evidence from Japanese households
Abstract We analyze data from the Keio Household Panel Survey (KHPS) to investigate how individuals' beliefs about financial markets influence current and planned asset holdings. Our results reveal statistically and economically significant relations between specific beliefs and both present asset allocations and accumulation.
Raslan Alzuabi, Daniel Gray
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Survey: Competition in Higher Education
ABSTRACT This paper provides a bibliometric mapping and economic interpretation of the literature on competition in higher education. Drawing on 1470 Scopus‐indexed articles (1961–2023), we combine descriptive bibliometrics, a keyword co‐occurrence network, and a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) of harmonized author‐assigned keywords with a ...
Amjad Aun
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