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1. 16. Essays on Informational Asymmetries in Mergers and Acquisitions

   Författare :Aron Berg; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mergers and acquisitions; investments; asymmetric information; stock misvaluation; financial frictions; capital structure; antitrust policy; Mergers and acquisitions; Investments; Asymmetric information; Stock misvaluation; Financial frictions; Capital structure; Antitrust policy;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis covers issues related to financing in mergers and acquisitions. It studies the relationship between firms’ financing conditions and firms’ decisions to either buy or sell assets. LÄS MER

3. 17. Essays on entry externalities and market segmentation

   Författare :Kaj Martensen; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of four papers. The first two essays deal with entry externalities, the third studies the Law of One Price (LOP), while the last essay examines average profits for a monopolist under uncertainty. In the first essay, entry externalities in the form of information and positive payoff externalities are studied. LÄS MER

4. 18. Firm dynamics and competition in the electricity market

   Författare :Aili Tang; Lars Hultkrantz; Magnus Lodefalk; Niklas Jakobsson; Robert Lundmark; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Firm growth; profitability; steady-state; market power; competition; Boone indicator;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four independent essays that deal with the firm dynamics and competition in the electricity market. Specifically, it addresses two important facets of firm dynamics, namely, firm performance (growth and profitability) and the change in competition intensity that Swedish electricity firms face, brought by the process of deregulation in Swedish electricity market. LÄS MER

5. 19. Creditor Rights and Innovation : Evidence from China

   Författare :Qing Xia; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : In this paper I investigate if and how strengthening creditor rights enables firms to engage in more innovation activities, using the enactment of a new property law in China as a natural experiment. By using a newly constructed measure of land unavailability, I find that firms in cities where construction is more constrained by geography substitute short-term debt with long-term debt, hold less internal cash, invest more on intangible assets and eventually generate more patents after the enactment of the law. LÄS MER

7. 20. Do Dividend Changes Really Signal? : Evidence from Sweden

   Författare :Per Alkebäck; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Dividend policy; joint announcements; dividend initiations and omissions; dividend changes and surrounding quarterly and annual earnings; and the management s view of dividends; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Business Administration; företagsekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of the studies in this thesis is to clarify and hopefully shed some light on one important issue in dividend policy: the market reaction to announcements of cash dividends (changes) on the Swedish market.The first study, Joint Dividend and Earnings Announcements, Firm Size and Tax Law Changes, examines stock price reaction to joint dividend and earnings announcements. LÄS MER