We develop a model to illustrate that controlling shareholders choose the level of investor protection that maximizes their own interests. Controlling shareholders in companies with complicated control structures can easily extract private benefits and are thus reluctant to enhance investor protection which would necessitate increased transparency. In contrast, controlling shareholders in compa...

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This report presents our solution to PAKDD 2007 Data Mining Competition, which details the steps to develop the customer growth model to identify cross-selling opportunities. This model is able to score the propensity of a credit card customer to take up a home loan with the finance company. We first describe the data preparation steps in detail. Then, the home loan customer growth model is pro...

We delimit a classification matrix of companies formed by four quadrants, defined by the Present Value of Growth Opportunities and by the Naïve Net Present Value. Market data relative to companies that have stock negotiated on the Brazilian stock exchange (the São Paulo Stock Exchange Bovespa) for the years 2005 and 2006 were utilized. The retail, textile, iron and steel, and metallurgy, petrol...

Over the past decade, growth in insurance demand in the BRICS economies has been a key driver of global non-life premium growth. Current forecasts suggest that these markets will continue to be areas of significant growth over the coming decade. We consider how climate change may influence these trends in the period to 2030. We suggest five pathways of influence: economic growth; willingness to...

1.0 INTRODUCTION In the past few decades, U.S. businesses have made large investments in information technology (IT), without decisive evidence about the value of such investments [1]. A natural question that arises in this context is whether managers have wasted organizational resources through large investments in IT. In his well-known free cash flow hypothesis, Michael Jensen argues that man...

Does financial development result in capital being reallocated more rapidly to industries where it is most productive? We argue that if this was the case, financially developed countries should see faster growth in industries with investment opportunities due to global demand and productivity shifts. Testing this cross-industry cross-country growth implication requires proxies for (latent) glob...

This paper, using 833 observations of listed Japanese firms between the years 1992 to 2000, explore the implications of the free cash flow hypothesis concerning the disciplinary role of ownership structure in corporate capital structure policy. The results show (1) The relation between leverage and free cash flow are significantly positive and greater for low-growth firms than for the high-grow...