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Ceo’S Inside Debt And Dynamics Of Capital Structure, Eric Brisker, Wei Wang
Ceo’S Inside Debt And Dynamics Of Capital Structure, Eric Brisker, Wei Wang
Business Faculty Publications
Debt-type compensation (inside debt) exacerbates the divergence in risk preferences between the chief executive officer (CEO) and shareholders and, in turn, affects capital structure decisions. An excessively risk-averse CEO tends to use less debt than the shareholders desire, reduce debt
quickly when the firm is overlevered, but is reluctant to increase debt when the firm is underlevered. We find that higher CEO’s inside debt ratio (i.e., inside debt as a percentage of total incentive compensation) is associated with lower firm leverage and faster (slower) leverage adjustments toward the shareholders’ desired level for overlevered (underlevered) firms. The CEO’s inside debt ratio …
Essays On Capital Structure And Public Debt Markets, Viktoriya Staneva
Essays On Capital Structure And Public Debt Markets, Viktoriya Staneva
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation consists of three chapters that examine capital structure determinants as well as the evolution of credit rating standards in the market for public debt.
Chapter 1 This chapter shows that firm fixed effects in panel leverage regressions act as a noisy proxy for managerial effects that drive persistence in leverage. Firms that do not change their CEO for prolonged periods of time are more likely to keep debt ratios within a narrow bandwidth and to display persistent differences in their time-series averages for up to 20 years. A CEO turnover is associated with considerable modifications to the financing …
Essays In Corporate Responsibility And Finance, Mert Demir
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 …
Impact Of Corporate Governance On Capital Structure Of Pakistan, Irfan Haider Shakri
Impact Of Corporate Governance On Capital Structure Of Pakistan, Irfan Haider Shakri
ECU Posters
Corporate Governance-CG is a mechanism that protects the interest of all stakeholders specially shareholders in a modern economic and corporate world that is responsible for economic growth of an economy. Capital structure is one of the weightiest decision that effects the performance of the firm. This study empirically finds how corporate governance practices impact the capital structure of the firm.