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Board Characteristics, Accounting Report Integrity, and the Cost of Debt
- R. C. Anderson, Sattar Mansi, D. Reeb
- Business
- 1 September 2004
Creditor reliance on accounting-based debt covenants suggests that debtors are potentially concerned with board of director characteristics that influence the integrity of financial accounting… Expand
Founding Family Ownership and the Agency Cost of Debt
- R. C. Anderson, Sattar Mansi, D. Reeb
- Business
- 2002
We investigate the impact of founding family ownership structure on the agency cost of debt. We find that founding family ownership is common in large, publicly traded firms and is related, both… Expand
Corporate governance and firm cash holdings in the US
- J. Harford, Sattar Mansi, W. Maxwell
- Business
- 1 March 2008
Using governance metrics based on antitakeover provisions and inside ownership, we find that firms with weaker corporate governance structures actually have smaller cash reserves. When distributing… Expand
Does Auditor Quality and Tenure Matter to Investors? Evidence from the Bond Market
- Sattar Mansi, W. Maxwell, D. Miller
- Business
- 1 September 2004
We examine the relation between auditor characteristics (quality and tenure) and the cost of debt financing. Consistent with the hypothesis that audit characteristics are important to the capital… Expand
Does Corporate Governance Matter to Bondholders
- Mark Klock, Sattar Mansi, W. Maxwell
- Business
- 1 December 2005
We examine the relation between the cost of debt financing and a governance index that contains various antitakeover and shareholder protection provisions. Using firm-level data from the Investors… Expand
Corporate Diversification: What Gets Discounted?
- Sattar Mansi, D. Reeb
- Economics
- 1 October 2002
Prior literature finds that diversified firms sell at a discount relative to the sum of the imputed values of their business segments. We explore this documented discount and argue that it stems from… Expand
Corporate Governance and Firm Cash Holdings
- Jarrad Harford, Sattar Mansi, W. Maxwell
- Business
- 28 August 2006
We examine the relation between the management of cash holdings and corporate governance. We find that firms with weaker corporate governance have smaller cash reserves. Further tests suggest that… Expand
Does Corporate Governance Matter to Bondholders?
- Mark S. Klock, Sattar Mansi, W. Maxwell
- Business
- 1 July 2004
We examine the relation between the cost of debt financing and a governance index that contains various antitakeover and shareholder protection provisions. Using firm-level data from the Investors… Expand
Firm Internationalization and the Cost of Debt Financing: Evidence from Non-Provisional Publicly Traded Debt
- D. Reeb, Sattar Mansi, J. M. Allee
- Economics
- 27 June 2001
Recent research suggests that firm internationalization is associated with greater exchange rate risk and a higher cost of equity capital. However, there is no research on the relation between the… Expand
Founding Family Ownership and the Agency Cost of Debt
- R. C. Anderson, Sattar Mansi, D. Reeb
- Business
- 1 May 2003
We investigate the impact of founding family ownership structure on the agency cost of debt. We find that founding family ownership is common in large, publicly traded firms and is related, both… Expand