Search for dissertations about: "Repurchases"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Repurchases.

  2. 1. Essays on Share Repurchases and Equity Ownership

    Author : Jonas Råsbrant; Staffan Laestadius; Kenneth Högholm; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Share repurchases; Buybacks; Stock performance; Liquidity; Rights offerings; Equity ownership; Portfolio choice; Owner-managers; Stockholm Stock Exchange; NASDAQ OMX Stockholm;

    Abstract : This thesis comprises five empirical essays using Swedish data. Three of the essays examine open market share repurchases, one essay investigates changes in investors’ shareholdings surrounding equity rights offerings (ROs), and the last essay investigates owner-managers’ equity portfolio choices. READ MORE

  4. 2. Essays in empirical corporate finance and portfolio choice

    Author : Andriy Bodnaruk; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : One of the main tenets of finance is diversification. Investors choose their portfolios so as to diversify away their idiosyncratic risk. In four essays included into this dissertation the implications of less than perfect diversification on investors’ performance and asset pricing are investigated. READ MORE

  5. 3. Director Interlocking and Firm Ownership : Longitudinal Studies of 1- and 3-Mode Network Dynamics

    Author : Love Bohman; Christofer Edling; Wouter de Nooy; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social network analysis; Director interlocks; Ownership; Corporate governance; 3-mode networks; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : This thesis is based on three empirical studies of the director interlock network among Swedish firms listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, focusing on its consequences for firm behavior and its association with ownership structures. Director interlocks are created when directors serve on, and hence interlock, several boards. READ MORE

  6. 4. Convergence of National Corporate Governance Systems : Localizing and Fitting the Transplants

    Author : Ulf Larsson Olaison; Karin Jonnergård; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business administration; Företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to elucidate the phenomenon of legal transfers from the perspective of the dominant comparative corporate governance research paradigm. Drawing on legal studies and empirical observations, the thesis develops a terminology for understanding the legal transplant metaphor in comparative corporate governance and problematizes the debate on the convergence or divergence of corporate governance systems. READ MORE