Survey Research In Corporate Finance

Corporate finance is a multifaceted discipline in which everything works in theory but not necessarily in practice. To bridge this gap, intelligently designed and executed surveys are essential in empirically validating conceptual hypotheses and the relative usefulness of various theories. Survey Research in Corporate Finance is a unique summary of state-of-the-art survey research in finance. Baker, Singleton, and Veit catalog and discuss the most important contributions to the field and provide a longitudinal perspective unavailable anywhere else. They offer an objective look at the role survey research in finance should play and illustrate the general and particular aspects of the form this research should take, how it is typically carried out, and how it should ideally be carried out, taking into account considerations developed throughout the book. The book provides financial researchers with a useful overview of survey methodology, synthesizes the major streams or clusters of survey research in corporate finance, and offers a valuable resource and guide for those interested in conducting and reading survey research in finance. Because a variety of views exist on the role of survey research in corporate finance, the authors present key findings from the varying perspectives of finance academics, finance journal editors, and finance practitioners. Synthesizing survey results on major issues in finance and offering knowledge learned from years of communications between academics and practitioners, Survey Research in Corporate Finance enables students and scholars of finance, as well as decision makers in many different kinds of firms, to actually determine how the theories on which their work is based actually play out in practice. This book is an essential, one-of-a-kind reference for any practitioners or academics interested in survey research in corporate finance.

This e-book presents six articles that employ survey-based methods in examining issues of importance in finance and financial decision-making.The topics range from dividend policy to derivatives usage to methodological issues in employing the survey method and the views of the profession regarding the survey method itself.In keeping with the international focus of the journal,the data used in these studies come from countries around the globe(the US,Brazil,Canada,Germany,Denmark,and Australia).The targets of these surveys include journal editors,chief financial officers and other practicing financial managers,and mutual fund managers.While the articles selected for this e-book all involve the use of surveys,a variety of techniques are employed to generate empirical results on a wide range of research topics.

As there is no current book that deals extensively or exclusively with survey research in corporate finance Survey Research in Corporate Finance is the only one of its kind. For even while there are numerous books on survey methodology, none focus on this methodology as specifically applied to corporate finance. In the book, Baker, Singleton, and Velt do nothing less than provide an overview of survey methodology useful to financial researchers, synthesize the major streams or clusters of survey research in corporate finance, and offer a valuable resource and guide for those interested in conducting survey research in finance. Thus this volume will be an essential reference for practitioners, academics, and graduate students-who all must know the methodology of finance survey research. In addition to methodology, the book identifies areas that will be best served by survey-based research. Researchers will have a wealth of information regarding past surveys and will be aware of suitable candidates for future surveys. Several chapters are devoted to synthesizing survey results on major issues in finance. These will help decision makers in finance and in non-finance firms to acquire knowledge learned from years of communications between academics and practitioners.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of supply and demand, product innovation, pricing, and other matters in the business finance market. It looks at major factors affecting the competitiveness (growth, performance) of banks and other business finance suppliers. It examines the principal business finance products, new product developments, and marketing and distribution issues. Finally, it reviews key influences on businesses' demands for particular types of finance. The book will be useful to academics, commentators, and practitioners on both the supply and demand sides of the market - including executives in the business finance industry, industrial-commercial firms and their finance managers, and independent professional advisers and accountants. CONTENTS: 1. THE BUSINESS FINANCE MARKET: AN OVERVIEW 2. THE SUPPLY OF BUSINESS FINANCE 3. THE ECONOMIC & POLITICAL-LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS FINANCING 4. THE FINANCING REQUIREMENTS OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF FIRM 5. BUSINESS FINANCING REQUIREMENTS IN DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES 6. THE USES OF FINANCE BY BUSINESSES 7. FACTORS INFLUENCING BUSINESSES' DEMANDS FOR PARTICULAR TYPES OF FINANCE 8. THE DEMAND FOR OVERDRAFTS & OTHER SHORT-TERM CREDIT FACILITIES 9. THE DEMAND FOR MEDIUM-TERM LOANS & OTHER FACILITIES 10. THE DEMAND FOR LARGE-SCALE LONG-TERM FINANCE

Analyzing Event Statistics in Corporate Finance provides new alternative methodologies to increase accuracy when performing statistical tests for event studies within corporate finance. In contrast to conventional surveys or literature reviews, Jeng focuses on various methodological defects or deficiencies that lead to inaccurate empirical results, which ultimately produce bad corporate policies. This work discusses the issues of data collection and structure, the recursive smoothing for systematic components in excess returns, the choices of event windows, different time horizons for the events, and the consequences of applications of different methodologies. In providing improvement for event studies in corporate finance, and based on the fact that changes in parameters for financial time series are common knowledge, a new alternative methodology is developed to extend the conventional analysis to more robust arguments.