We propose a dynamic structural corporate model in which firms face imperfect capital markets and frictional product markets. We highlight the importance of the endogeneity of firms’ short-term cash flows and the endogeneity of the marginal value of liquidity in determining the interactions between investment, financing and product price setting decisions. Our primary goal is to develop a finan...

The valuation of dividend imputation credits is a currently unresolved issue facing managers, investors and regulators in the Australian market. This thesis builds upon Officer’s (1994) cost of capital, under imputation, framework by seeking to identify the value of imputation credits implied by option prices. It extends the existing imputation literature by using widely traded common stock opt...

We examine shareholder wealth implications of supplying financing to customers. Robust results suggest that excess returns and changes in trade receivables are directly and significantly related. Further evidence indicates the value of receivables is higher for suppliers with stronger motives relating to operating and contracting costs. The results also suggest a discounted value of receivables...

We examine the relation between employee protection legislation and corporate cash holdings. Our rationale rests on notion that higher labor adjustment costs increase a firm's operating leverage making firms to adjust their liquidity management by increasing precautionary savings. Consistent with this, we show staggered passage of legal exceptions “at-will” employment doctrine in various U.S. s...

Payouts play an important role in the relationship between shareholders and agents in terms of rewarding the decisions of shareholders. Previous studies have observed that payout decisions appear in different ways depending on an industry's financial and operating structures. Since the airline industry has been characterized as high debt dependency, this study presumes distinctive characteristi...

Using the quarterly Compustat files, we present empirical findings that business capital investment is significantly higher in the fourth quarter than in other quarters. Even after controlling for business capital investment determinants, we find that the fourth quarter capital investment is significantly larger but less sensitive to investment opportunities than other quarters’ capital investm...