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In response to Australia's decision to adopt international financial reporting standards (IFRSs) from 2005, New Zealand has subsequently decided to follow. New Zealand reporting entities are required to adopt IFRSs from 2007 with the option of early adoption from 2005.As New Zealand is one of...
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-led growth in this paper. The inherent tension between providing sufficient profit incentive to motivate investment by the …
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A dynamic process underlying firms' discrete financial choices has previously been found, but without controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, this dependence can either be of a true nature or an effect of firm-specific characteristics that we cannot observe. This study extends previous...
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This paper analyses the role of banks in financing SMEs in Britain and Germany. It applies a sociological institutionalist approach to understand how banks construct and manage risk, relating to SME business. The empirical analysis is based on the results of a comparative survey of a sample of...
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result is established in a model with tax advantage to debt and expectations about a forthcoming tax reform. Investment spurt … leaves the long-run investment incentives of an all-equity firm unaffected is shown to cause a substantial short run … investment hike. The findings are illustrated by numerical simulations indicating the magnitudes of the spurt effects. …
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The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the interaction between hedging, financing, and investment … differs for firms with different growth opportunities. We empirically find that high-growth firms increase their investment …, but not their leverage, by hedging. However, we also find that firms with few investment opportunities use derivatives to …
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more favourable loan package; that it is associated with over-investment even when investment does not create collateral …
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We argue that positive comovements between land prices and business investment are a driving force behind the broad … joint dynamics of land prices and business investment. …
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guarantee existence. When investment adjustment costs are introduced, the monetary and fiscal policy dichotomy is in principle …
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emerging markets. The paper measures the risk of short-term exposure by estimating, at the firm level, the effect on investment … not find that this reduction in net worth translates into a drop in investment. …
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