CEO duality, agency costs, and internal capital allocation efficiency

N Aktas, PC Andreou, I Karasamani… - British Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the impact of CEO duality on firms' internal capital allocation efficiency.
We observe that when the CEO is also chair of the board, diversified firms make inefficient …

Executive incentives and payout policy: Empirical evidence from Europe

A De Cesari, N Ozkan - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2015 - Elsevier
We investigate how corporate payout policy is influenced by executive incentives, ie stock
and option holdings, stock option deltas and stock-based pay-performance sensitivity for …

The influence of corporate financialization on asymmetric cost behavior: weakening or worsening

G Zhu, W Hu, T Peng, C Xue - Journal of Business Economics and …, 2021 - bmee.vgtu.lt
This paper investigates the relationship between corporate financialization and asymmetric
cost behavior using the Chinese listed companies over the period of 2009–2017. To …

Corporate governance and the outward foreign direct investment: Firm-level evidence from China

T Tong, X Chen, T Singh, B Li - Economic Analysis and Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the role of corporate governance in China's outward foreign direct
investment (ODI) using a sample of Chinese public firms over the period 2009–2015 …

US multinational companies' payout and investment decisions in response to international tax provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

BD Beyer, JF Downes, ME Mathis… - Journal of the …, 2023 - publications.aaahq.org
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) dramatically changed US taxation of
foreign earnings for US multinational companies (MNCs). Specifically, the TCJA required …

Investment efficiency and corporate governance: evidence from Asian listed firms

C Med Bechir, M Jouirou - Journal of Sustainable Finance & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Our study aims to investigate the impact of some governance mechanisms especially,
shareholder activism, gender diversity, board independence, and board size, on investment …

CEO inside debt and internal capital market efficiency

S Freund, HT Nguyen, HV Phan, HT Tang - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
Agency theory argues that managerial equity-based incentives are more effective when firm
solvency is likely while debt-based incentives are more effective when firms face a greater …

Internal capital market efficiency and the diversification discount: The role of financial statement comparability

JC Cheng, RS Wu - Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates how financial statement comparability affects the efficiency of
internal capital markets and diversification discounts in multi‐segment firms through …

Internal capital market inefficiencies, shareholder payout, and abnormal leverage

B Beyer, J Downes, ET Rapley - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2017 - Elsevier
This study investigates how internal capital market inefficiencies influence capital return to
equity shareholders via dividends and repurchases. A company's allocation of capital …

Early evidence on the use of foreign cash following the tax cuts and jobs Act of 2017

B Beyer, J Downes, M Mathis… - Available at SSRN …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) reduces US multinational
companies'(MNC) internal capital market frictions related to repatriation costs by decreasing …