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Working Papers

2003

1. Financial Constraints and Investment: Assessing the Impact of a World Bank Loan Program on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Sri Lanka
   Staff Working Papers, Bank of Canada View citations (1)

1999

2. Signaling, Dividends and Financial Structure: Implications from Cross Country Comparisons
   Rotman School of Management - Finance, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto View citations (1)

Journal Articles

2019

1. Does corporate diversification provide insurance against economic disruptions?
   Journal of Business Research, 2019, 100, (C), 218-233 View citations (11)

2017

2. The Coase Theorem and Core Theory
   Man and the Economy, 2017, 4, (2), 5 View citations (1)

2015

3. Bank loan contracting and corporate diversification: Does organizational structure matter to lenders?
   Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2015, 24, (2), 252-282 View citations (18)
4. Loan collateral, corporate investment, and business cycle
   Journal of Banking & Finance, 2015, 55, (C), 380-392 View citations (5)

2013

5. The market for CEOs: An empirical analysis
   Journal of Economics and Business, 2013, 67, (C), 24-54 View citations (1)

2012

6. Is Chapter 11 Efficient?
   Financial Management, 2012, 41, (1), 229-253 View citations (3)

2009

7. Experimental Tests of Core Theory and the Coase Theorem: Inefficiency and Cycling
   Journal of Law and Economics, 2009, 52, (4), 745-759 View citations (8)

2008

8. Financial constraints and investment: assessing the impact of a World Bank credit program on small and medium enterprises in Sri Lanka
   Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2008, 41, (2), 475-500 View citations (7)
   Also in Canadian Journal of Economics, 2008, 41, (2), 475-500 (2008) View citations (9)

2006

9. Dividend Smoothing and Debt Ratings
   Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2006, 41, (2), 439-453 View citations (38)

2005

10. Can corporatization improve the performance of state-owned enterprises even without privatization?
    Journal of Corporate Finance, 2005, 11, (5), 791-808 View citations (50)
11. Corporate governance and manager turnover: An unusual social experiment
    Journal of Banking & Finance, 2005, 29, (6), 1459-1481 View citations (11)
12. Debt Maturity Structure and Firm Investment
    Financial Management, 2005, 34, (4) View citations (45)
13. The impact of leverage on firm investment: Canadian evidence
    Journal of Corporate Finance, 2005, 11, (1-2), 277-291 View citations (201)

2003

14. Dividend policy and the organization of capital markets
    Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 2003, 13, (2), 101-121 View citations (29)
15. Do Emerging Market Firms Follow Different Dividend Policies From U.S. Firms?
    Journal of Financial Research, 2003, 26, (3), 371-387 View citations (107)
16. The Core, Transaction Costs, and the Coase Theorem
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2003, 14, (4), 287-299 View citations (12)

2001

17. Capital Structures in Developing Countries
    Journal of Finance, 2001, 56, (1), 87-130 View citations (683)

1990

18. Risk versus return in the substitutability of debt and equity securities
    Journal of Monetary Economics, 1990, 26, (1), 161-178 View citations (2)

1987

19. Economies of Scale versus Technological Change in the Natural Gas Transmission Industry
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1987, 69, (3), 556-61 View citations (20)
20. Miller's Irrelevance Mechanism: A Note
    Journal of Finance, 1987, 42, (1), 169-80 View citations (7)

1986

21. International exchange risk and asset substitutability
    Journal of International Money and Finance, 1986, 5, (4), 449-466 View citations (1)

1983

22. Core theory and uniformity in accounting: Rationalizing the accounting rulemaker
    Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 1983, 2, (4), 225-237 View citations (1)
23. Mean-Variance Utility Functions and the Demand for Risky Assets: An Empirical Analysis Using Flexible Functional Forms
    Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1983, 18, (4), 411-424 View citations (2)
24. Reorganization in bankruptcy and the issue of strategic risk
    Journal of Banking & Finance, 1983, 7, (1), 119-133 View citations (13)

1981

25. The Coase Theorem and the Empty Core
    Journal of Law and Economics, 1981, 24, (1), 175-81 View citations (36)

1980

26. Corporate leverage and growth the game-theoretic issues
    Journal of Financial Economics, 1980, 8, (4), 379-399 View citations (11)
27. Future Investment Opportunities and the Value of the Call Provision on a Bond: Comment
    Journal of Finance, 1980, 35, (4), 1051-54 View citations (2)
28. Uncertain Externalities, Liability Rules, and Resource Allocation: Comment
    American Economic Review, 1980, 70, (5), 1058-59 View citations (1)

1979

29. A Note on the Economics of Exhaustible Resources
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1979, 12, (1), 83-89
30. Investment, Market Structure, and the Cost of Capital
    Journal of Finance, 1979, 34, (1), 85-92 View citations (3)

1977

31. The Demand for Assets under Conditions of Risk: Comment
    Journal of Finance, 1977, 32, (3), 927-29 View citations (1)

Chapters

2012

1. Unanticipated Growth, Tobin's Q, and Leverage
   Chapter 11 in Bridging The Gaap Recent Advances in Finance and Accounting, 2012, pp 241-281

1998

2. Microeconomic Elements and Perspectives from Finance Theory
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (3)