This paper investigates the relation between a firm's location and its corporate finance decisions. We develop a simple model where being located within an industry cluster increases opportunities to make acquisitions, and to facilitate those acquisitions, firms within clusters maintain more...

This paper reexamines the analysis in Maug (1998) on the relationship between market liquidity and large shareholder activism. Taking explicitly into account the effect of a majority requirement for intervention in the management of a firm, we show that, contrary to Maug's claim, there is a...

We compare the governance of foreign firms to the governance of similar U.S. firms. Using an index of firm governance attributes, we find that, on average, foreign firms have worse governance than matching U.S. firms. Roughly 8% of foreign firms have better governance than comparable U.S. firms....

In this paper we present a real-life application of a fuzzy expert system aimed at rating and ranking firms. Unlike standard DCF models, it integrates financial, strategic and business determinants and processes both quantitative and qualitative variables. Twenty-one value drivers are defined,...

Kurumsal yönetim firma sahipliği ile yönetim arasındaki ilişkiler sistemini temsil etmektedir. Bankaların ekonomi ve mali yapıdaki üstlendikleri görev ve mudilerin haklarının korunması, sisteme olan güvenin sarsılmaması ve istikrarın bozulmaması açısından bankalarda kurumsal...

The paper proposes a practical guide to the evaluation of the financial and non-financial vulnerability of the private sector (excluding financial entities). It describes step by step the sequence of issues that should be examined to assess the level of vulnerability of the private sector,...

We analyze the impact of a 75 pct. Break-Through rule on 1,035 European firms with dual class <p> shares. In 3-5 pct. of the firms the controlling owners incur a direct loss of control, whereas in <p> additional 11-17 pct. of the firms the controlling owners are likely to incur a control loss. Firms...</p></p>

(VF)La recherche en finance comportementale d’entreprise s’est fortement développée ces dernières années. Cet article propose une synthèse des premières recherches consacrées à l’excès de confiance des dirigeants et son impact sur les décisions financières. La littérature...

(VF)Cet article expose les principaux résultats tirés des travaux empiriques portant sur les causes et les conséquences des décisions financières prises par les dirigeants d’entreprises françaises. Les trois types de décisions étudiées sont les décisions d’investissement, les...

This Paper investigates valuation effects of share block transfers and employs agency theory to explain the determinants of block premia. A sample of transactions from Poland is used to measure benefits and costs of ownership concentration. Block premia are found to be substantially lower than...