In an era of the digital world, carrying of ATM cards should no more be a restriction to withdraw the money. A simple SIM card would do the needful replacing the necessity of a physical ATM card to access an ATM. When the ATM card holder is out of station or unable to locate his ATM card and if any cash payments are to be done urgently, then he can withdraw the cash himself or by sending any ex...

L Finitely many growth options 30 L.1 Optimal policy in the waiting period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 L.2 Optimal strategy for a firm with a growth option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 L.3 Proofs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 L.4 Solution to Problem 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 L.5 Solu...

We compare the post-merger financial performance of acquiring firms that have wellconnected (central) boards with the performance of less-connected (non-central) boards and find that central boards are associated with better performing acquisitions as evidenced by larger post-merger buy-and-hold abnormal returns, stronger improvements in the ROA, and a 7-12% annual abnormal return based on cale...

A firm can finance investment either by borrowing or by drawing on cash balances, so that financial asset and liability changes tend to have opposite signs. In contrast, financial intermediaries borrow in order to lend, so that financial asset and liability changes have the same sign. Large non-financial firms in China and India behave like intermediaries rather than textbook non-financial firm...

We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option of giving in kind (in the form of goods), compared to giving that must be in cash. Qualitative post-...

We propose a theory of credit lines provided by banks to firms as a form of monitored liquidity insurance. Bank monitoring and resulting revocations help control illiquidityseeking behavior of firms insured by credit lines. The cost of credit lines is thus greater for firms with high liquidity risk, which in turn are likely to use cash instead of credit lines. We test this implication for corpo...

Recently, market globalization and competition have forced companies to find alternative means to boost sales and revenue. The use of the cash flow is increasingly becoming a viable alternative for managers to improve their company’s profitability in a supply chain. In today’s business transactions, a supplier usually asks a manufacturer to pay via the advance-cash-credit (ACC) payment scheme i...

This study analyzes the effect of managerial style on firm value by partitioning general and administrative (G&A) expenses in the REIT industry into a nondiscretionary “structural” component associated with the costs of asset and liability management and a discretionary or “style” component. The discretionary component is significantly related to at least one measure of stylespecifically, the p...