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Three Essays on Financing and Investment Decisions in Small U.S. Firms

Roncagli, Francis Blaise
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1354544027

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2012, Doctor of Business Administration, Cleveland State University, Monte Ahuja College of Business.
This dissertation consists of three essays related to the financing and investment decisions of small U.S. firms. Each of the essays presents interesting and original empirical research questions, with hypotheses well-grounded in finance and economic theories. The empirical methodology, data and models that are used to test the hypotheses are presented for each essay. The three empirical questions addressed are (1) Why don’t small firms take every trade credit discount offered to them? (2) What determines the cash holdings of small firms? and (3) Why do small firms make investments unrelated to their core business? This dissertation answers these questions by analyzing the data available in the National Survey of Small Business Firms (NSSBF) conducted in 1998 and 2003.
Chenchu Bathala, PhD (Committee Chair)
Ravi Kamath, PhD (Committee Member)
Walter Rom, PhD (Committee Member)
Billy Kosteas, PhD (Committee Member)
236 p.
Finance
small firms trade credit discounts investments cash holdings

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  • Roncagli, F. B. (2012). Three Essays on Financing and Investment Decisions in Small U.S. Firms [Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1354544027

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Roncagli, Francis. Three Essays on Financing and Investment Decisions in Small U.S. Firms. 2012. Cleveland State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1354544027.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Roncagli, Francis. "Three Essays on Financing and Investment Decisions in Small U.S. Firms." Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1354544027

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