This article reviews the conglomerate literature, with a focus on recent papers that have cast strong doubt on the hypothesis that conglomerate firms destroy value on average when …
We document that localized policies aimed at mitigating climate risk can have unintended consequences due to regulatory arbitrage by firms. Using a difference-in-differences …
JC Stein - Handbook of the Economics of Finance, 2003 - cfrn.com.cn
This essay surveys the body of research that asks how the efficiency of corporate investment is influenced by problems of asymmetric information and agency. I organize the material …
A Seru - Journal of financial economics, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of the conglomerate form on the scale and novelty of corporate Research and Development (R&D) activity. I exploit a quasi-experiment involving …
H Almeida, CS Kim, HB Kim - The Journal of Finance, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines capital reallocation among firms in Korean business groups (chaebol) in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the consequences of this capital …
Y Feng, S Yao, C Wang, J Liao, F Cheng - Emerging Markets Review, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper examines whether and how business diversification affects financialization in non-financial corporations. Using data from the Chinese market, we find that business …
PG Berger, RN Hann - The Accounting Review, 2007 - publications.aaahq.org
We exploit the change in US segment reporting rules (from SFAS No. 14 to SFAS No. 131) to examine two motives for managers to conceal segment profits: proprietary costs and agency …
A Tarkom - Finance Research Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on firms' working capital management (WCM) covering 2,542 US-publicly traded firms for the period 2019Q1 …
PG Berger, R Hann - Journal of accounting research, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the effect of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) new segment reporting standard on the information and monitoring environment. We compare …