Governance mechanisms, investment opportunity set and SMEs cash holdings
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Cash Holdings and Corporate Governance –
In this paper, we provide new and complementing international evidence on the relation between cash holdings, corporate governance, and firm value. Our sample consists of a crosssection of 1,875 firms from 46 countries in 2007. We construct eight different measures of firm-level corporate governance based on 64 individual governance attributes provided by Governance Metrics International (GMI)....
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عنوان ژورنال: Small Business Economics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0921-898X,1573-0913
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-9366-z