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Nana Abena Kwansa
Bio: Nana Abena Kwansa is an academic researcher from Heriot-Watt University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Capital structure & Debt. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 8 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of corporate governance on capital structure dynamics using ordinary least squares regressions on 17,496 firm-year observations for 2,294 US multinational companies over the period 1990-2018.
14 citations
TL;DR: The authors found that multinational companies use similar or lower leverage than domestic firms and are more likely to raise new equity capital than new debt, while internationalization leads to the use of more expensive capital from the domestic market at a cost to shareholders.
9 citations
TL;DR: The authors empirically examined the impact of a firm's carbon emissions level on the market valuation of organic and inorganic investments and found that the market reacts negatively to corporate investment announcements by companies with high carbon emissions levels.
1 citations
01 Sep 2016
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01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: The authors summarizes some pivotal information on how to write a high-quality dissertation literature review and concludes with a discussion of common mistakes and a framework for the self-evaluation of a literature review.
Abstract: Writing a faulty literature review is one of many ways to derail a dissertation. This article summarizes some pivotal information on how to write a high-quality dissertation literature review. It begins with a discussion of the purposes of a review, presents taxonomy of literature reviews, and then discusses the steps in conducting a quantitative or qualitative literature review. The article concludes with a discussion of common mistakes and a framework for the self-evaluation of a literature review.
558 citations
229 citations
01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of ownership structure and regulatory independence on the interaction between capital structure and regulated prices using a comprehensive panel data of publicly traded European utilities was studied, and the authors found that firms in their sample tend to have a higher leverage if they are privately controlled and regulated by an independent regulatory agency.
Abstract: We study the effect of ownership structure and regulatory independence on the interaction between capital structure and regulated prices using a comprehensive panel data of publicly traded European utilities. We find that firms in our sample tend to have a higher leverage if they are privately controlled and regulated by an independent regulatory agency. Moreover, the leverage of these firms has a positive and significant effect on their regulated prices, but not vice versa. Our results are consistent with the theory that privately controlled regulated firms use leverage strategically to obtain better regulatory outcomes.
67 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of corporate governance on capital structure dynamics using ordinary least squares regressions on 17,496 firm-year observations for 2,294 US multinational companies over the period 1990-2018.
14 citations
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the effects of firm-level political risk on firm leverage decisions and speed of adjustment and found that firms with high political risk are associated with a faster speed-of-adjustment to target than those with low political risk.
5 citations