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Using recently collected data on Finnish small businesses, we provide evidence that the debt capacity of growth options, defined as the amount of debt that firms optimally raise for an incremental project, is negative, especially in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. We...
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Using new data originating from a recently conducted survey, this paper examines the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in private equity and debt markets in Finland. We find that the three most important sources of funds are the principal owner’s equity, trade credit...
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financial managers of Czech firms. The theoretical section provides an overview of prominent contemporary theories on capital … managers perceive particular instruments of internal and external financing. We find, that firms follow pecking order theory …
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Empirical studies examining the financing decisions of the firm focus exclusively on publicly held firms, not family-controlled firms despite their economic importance. This study investigates the external financing behavior of family-controlled firms, using a comprehensive sample of 777 large...
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This paper documents that standard cross-sectional determinants of firm leverage also apply to the capital structure of large banks in the United States and Europe. We find a remarkable consistency in sign, significance and economic magnitude. Like non-financial firms, banks appear to have...
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better market opportunities on incentive-conflicted managers' consumption of perquisites and on their use of defensive …
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that reduce conflicts with debtholders such as hiring managers with valuable reputations or "conservative" incentives …
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Sozialkapital wird definiert als geteiltes Wissen, Vertrauen und gemeinsame Kultur, eingebettet in Netzwerkstrukturen … und andere stabile Beziehungen zwischen Agenten. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass Sozialkapital schwieriger aufzubauen ist als … ökonomisches Kapital und dass es größere Auswirkungen auf die Gemeinschaft als Ganzes hat. Die Relevanz des Sozialkapital …
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Einfluss der Sozialisation in einem solchen System auf die Akkumulation von Sozialkapital und, als Konsequenz, auf die … belegt, dass Ostdeutsche, sofern sie im Sozialismus aufgewachsen sind, stärker in lokal gebundenes informelles Sozialkapital …
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