Uncertainty in firm valuation and a cross-sectional misvaluation measure

Methods of Payments and Cross-Border Acquiring firm Valuation

Consistent with the existing literature in U.S. domestic M&As, the methods of payment also seem to convey information about acquiring firm valuation in cross-border acquisitions. Cash-financing is associated with positive wealth gain upon foreign M&A announcements while equity-financing results in insignificant shareholder wealth increase. The fact that equity-financing does not lead to value l...

Corporate Governance and Firm Valuation in Colombia

Agency Problems, Firm Valuation, and Capital Structure

This paper studies the optimal contracting problem in a general cashow setup, and offers a framework to quantitatively assess the impact of agency problems. A closed form solution is obtained in the square-root mean-reverting cash ow process. In the geometric Brownian cashow setup, we embed the agency problem into Leland (1994), and nd that the debt-overhang problem lowers the optimal leverage....

Determinants of Institutional Delivery in Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

Background & aim: Government of Ethiopia is promoting institutional delivery despite the fact that there are a high number of home deliveries in the country mainly in hard-to-reach areas. Choice of institutional delivery is vital for the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortalities. The present study aimed to investigate the determinants of institutional delivery in ...

Pediatric and Adolescent Chest Pain: A Cross Sectional Study

Introduction: Chest pain is a common compliant in children and adolescents visiting the clinic. We assess and analyze the etiology of chest pain among children referred a pediatric cardiology clinic in cardiac center in south west of Iran.Materials and Methods: We assessed children with chest pain who visited our medical center during March 2013 to April 2014. Any case of trauma associated ches...