We examine how corporate innovations influence firms’ industrial diversification decisions and how innovation-related diversification affects firm value. Our fixed effect, 2SLS and GMM models consistently show that corporate innovations lead to greater extent of diversification. The 2SLS model uses the staggered implementation of U.S. state-level R&D tax credits as an instrumental variable for ...

Traditional agency theory assumes that managers are egoistic and need incentives to act in the best interests of the firm. As such, agency theory is a key determinant of firm size, capital structure, corporate governance, and firm value. However, traditional theory ignores the fact that some people are virtuous and do not need such incentives. If some employees are selfless, diligent, and have ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate environmental strategy and firm value. The major finding of this study is that corporate performance with regard to environmental responsibility is related to overall firm value. Adopting an environmentally responsible strategy appears to significantly enhance corporate financial performance for all firms except thos...

With the reform of our property rights system, the maturity of the capital market, and the diversification of corporate financing, the capital structure decision has become the major concern of financial management. There are numbers of researches on how to determine the optimal capital structure, what factors affect the capital structure and what the relationship is like between the capital st...

An impressive volume of careful empirical studies finds evidence that the strength of firms’ corporate governance tends to be positively correlated with their financial performance; that is, firms that score higher on some measure of governance tend to outperform those which score worse. These findings are a puzzle insofar as we expect those who decide how a firm is organized, including its cor...