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Essays On Networks And Corporate Finance, Tatiana Salikhova

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In my dissertation I explore how personal networks affect firms’ financial decisions. In the first essay, I study how social connections among divisional managers affect the capital allocation to divisions in diversified conglomerates. In contrast to the previous studies, I focus on the horizontal connections or connections formed among managers of the same level of corporate hierarchy. I show that connections among divisional managers lead to higher sensitivity of segment capital spending to segment’s growth opportunities, higher firm-level allocation efficiency and higher firm value. Additionally, firms tend to strategically assign better-connected managers to these segments, and connections help to reduce …

Essays In Corporate Responsibility And Finance, Mert Demir

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation consists of three chapters:

Chapter 1: The Effects of Corporate Social Performance and Social Norms on Market Valuation of Nonfinancial Disclosures Using a novel measure of the quality of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures by global companies, this paper analyzes how CSR report quality affects firm value when mediating roles of social pressure and CSR performance are considered. I find that firms operating in socially controversial industries enjoy higher valuations when they issue high-quality CSR reports. I also find that for firms with poor CSR performance, higher-quality CSR disclosure is associated with a decline in firm value, while …

Determinantes De Acceso Al Segundo Mercado Para Las Pymes Del Subsector De Confección De Prendas De Vestir Excepto Prendas De Piel En Bogotá, Santiago López Lozano

Finanzas y Comercio Internacional

Las Pymes en Colombia concentran sus fuentes de financiamiento en el mercado intermediado o mercado bancario, desaprovechando los beneficios que brindan los instrumentos del mercado de valores a través del segundo mercado (un espacio ajustado a las necesidades de financiación de las Pymes). Por tal motivo, el presente trabajo pretende identificar los factores que determinan el acceso al segundo mercado de las Pymes del subsector de prendas de vestir excepto prendas de piel en Bogotá, a través de una metodología basada en un enfoque mixto puro, en donde tanto el método cuantitativo como cualitativo cuentan con el mismo peso y …