The aim of this paper is to re-examine the sequential-financing hypothesis in the context of convertible bond issuances from firms listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange from 1994 to 2003. The results contend that announcements of convertible debt offerings are, on average, associated with...

In this paper, we analyze the relationships between Finnish household types and their consumption-based carbon footprints. We calculate footprints by combining expenditure data with life-cycle greenhouse gas emission intensities derived from an environmentally extended input–output model. By...

The reference prior algorithm (Berger and Bernardo 1992) is applied to multivariate location-scale models with any regular sampling density, where we establish the irrelevance of the usual assumption of Normal sampling if our interest is in either the location or the scale. This result...