The underinvestment problem under conglomeration
Cogent Economics and Finance, 2015 This theoretical paper explores whether the underinvestment problem is aggravated or ameliorated by the formation of a pure conglomerate. It establishes that the answer depends critically on the volatility of corporate assets.
David McMillan, Jacques A Schnabel
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HeliyonIn recent years, underinvestment has become common among subsidised enterprises in China. Stakeholder theory asserts that environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance forces enterprises to prioritise stakeholder needs by incorporating ESG ...
Lian Kee Phua, Xiaoqian Wang
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European Union underinvestment in endometriosis research
Journal of Endometriosis and Uterine Disorders, 2023 Background: Endometriosis is considered one of the conditions that receives disproportionately low research funding relative to its burden. However, the volume of funding provided by the European Commission (EC) for this disease in the last decades is ...
Paola Viganò +2 more
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Underinvestment in diagnostic and vaccine research & development has put the world at greater risk from the Bundibugyo virus epidemic in 2026. [PDF]
VirulenceLy H.
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Underinvestment, Corporate Power and Health Promotion's Moral Jeopardy. [PDF]
Health Promot J AustrLunnay B, Hallett J, Crawford G.
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The heavy tail of extreme pain exacerbates health inequality: evidence from cluster headache underinvestment [PDF]
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsResearch on health inequality has traditionally focused on metrics such as years of life lost and disability-adjusted life years. This paper argues that current metrics systematically undervalue health conditions causing extreme pain to patients. Cluster
Alfredo Parra-Hinojosa +2 more
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Managerial overconfidence, internal financing and investment [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Finance, 2020 Corporate investment decisions are determined by a variety of factors, including various managerial measures, including overconfidence of managers, which are important determinants of corporate investment decisions.
Shahnaz Mashayekh, Fatemeh Morshedi
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Cogent Business & Management, 2023 Motivated by agency and stakeholder theories, this study aims to investigate the effect of corporate governance quality as measured by a single index on investment efficiency in the six Arab Gulf countries, commonly known as Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
Adam Yahya Jafeel +3 more
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Financial Reporting Quality, Debt Maturity, and Chief Executive Officer Career Concerns on Investment Efficiency [PDF]
BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 2018 The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of financial reporting quality, debt maturity, and CEO career concerns on investment efficiency in Indonesia. This study used a sample of 680 observations from non-financial companies in Indonesia
Darlin Aulia, Sylvia Veronica Siregar
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Investigating the Effect of Institutional Ownership and Ownership Concentration on Labor Investment Efficiency [PDF]
تحقیقات مالی, 2022 Objective: Efficient investment in human resources and the factors affecting it are among the topics receiving less attention in the academic literature.
Gholamreza Karami +2 more
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