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Thomas Schmid
Researcher at Technische Universität München
Publications - 96
Citations - 1744
Thomas Schmid is an academic researcher from Technische Universität München. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate governance & Capital structure. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 96 publications receiving 1420 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Schmid include Helmholtz Zentrum München & University of Hong Kong.
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Control considerations, creditor monitoring, and the capital structure of family firms.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the motives moving founders and their families to influence the capital structure decision in German banks and found that controlling considerations of major shareholders are important determinants of capital structure.
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Capital structure decisions in family firms: empirical evidence from a bank-based economy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the question if and how founding families influence the capital structure decision of their firms, and found that the family impact is mostly driven via management involvement and that the presence of a founder CEO has a strong negative effect on the leverage ratio.
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Family firms and R&D behavior–New evidence from a large-scale survey
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed how founders and their families influence R&D intensity in listed German firms and found that the impact of family control via voting rights is negative, but mostly not significant.
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Why do firms (not) hedge? — Novel evidence on cultural influence
Martin Lievenbrück,Thomas Schmid +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether cultural differences between countries help in explaining firms' hedging decisions and find that culture has a strong impact on the hedging behavior of firms.
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The da Vinci robotic system for general surgical applications: a critical interim appraisal.
Johannes Bodner,Florian Augustin,Heinze Wykypiel,John H. Fish,Gilbert Muehlmann,Gerold J. Wetscher,Thomas Schmid +6 more
TL;DR: Various general surgical procedures have proved feasible and safe when performed with the da Vinci robot, but robotic surgery does not at the moment represent a general alternative to conventional minimally invasive surgery.