Do Institutional Investors Influence Capital Structure Decisions?

How Do Cfos Make Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Decisions?

How Do Cfos Make Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Decisions?

e recently conducted a comprehensive survey that analyzed the current practice of corporate finance, with particular focus on the areas of capital budgeting and capital structure. The survey results enabled us to identify aspects of corporate practice that are but the opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of FEI. We thank the FEI executives who responded to the survey...

Capital Structure Decisions

The present study is an attempt to find the relationship between capital structure and value of firm and to find the significance of differences in capital structures of different companies – inter and intra industry. Two hypothesis were framed and tested. bivariate correlation technique was used to find the nature of relationship between (i) capital structure and cost of capital, (ii) cost of ...

Selection or Influence? Institutional Investors and Acquisition Targets

Firms with high levels of institutional ownership are more likely to be acquired. This paper shows that this positive correlation is due to ownership endogeneity. Institutional investors are better informed investors and buy acquisition targets (“selection”). After controlling for this ownership endogeneity, the presence of institutional investors reduces the probability of being acquired. Evid...

How Do Venture Capital Investors Add Value To Portfolio Companies?

Emerging growth companies are always eager for capital to finance growth. Capital in the monetary sense is in the forefront of every entrepreneur’s mind when it comes to seeking funding from venture capital and private equity investors. And for good reasons. Without the necessary capital, it is hard for an enterprise to build up its business. For any business to grow, it needs to hire the right...