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The main purpose of this research is to discuss the risk of TFT-LCD industry, and to prove that the future of this industry is not positive as expectation. Through discussing the TFT-LCD firms¡¦ operating, investing, and financing activities and observing the cash flows of their parent companies, the research tries to find the potential risk of this industry. The following conclusions were obtained. 1. From ¡§the variability of stock prices¡¨ and ¡§beta¡¨ of domestic TFT-LCD firms, we cannot find out if the operating risk of TFT-LCD industry rises or not. 2. The gap between cash flows from investing activities and cash flows from operating activities is getting larger. On the one hand, TFT-LCD firms have to keep on investing to compete with others, which makes their cash outflows grow up rapidly. On the other hand, Korean TFT-LCD firms and international system enterprises try hard to cut down panel prices, which makes domestic TFT-LCD firms can only earn low profit and even get loss. 3. Nowadays people put emphasis on the growth opportunity of LCD TV and expect the demand of LCD TV will bring TFT-LCD firms high profits. However, the research finds that the investment and production of LCD TV lack efficiency, which implies even if the demand of LCD TV spring up in the future, it won¡¦t necessarily benefit domestic TFT-LCD firms. 4. Observing the trend of Economic Value Added(EVA) of domestic TFT-LCD firms, we can see that EVA is getting lower during each valley of Crystal Cycle, which reflects the over production is getting worse in this industry and large investment accelerates the loss of TFT-LCD firms. 5. The difficulties of financing activities of domestic TFT-LCD firms include: (1) acceleration of Crystal Cycle, (2) shortage of cash flows limits the financing ability, (3) information asymmetry lowers the willingness of investors to invest, (4) banks starting to tighten the loans to TFT-LCD firms due to risk consideration. 6. The parent companies of TFT-LCD firms invest in TFT-LCD industry in order to cut down the cost and keep earning profits, however, the huge cash outflows raise the risk of the parent companies instead. It indirectly proves the high investment risk of TFT-LCD industry.

The study focus on how customer satisfaction influence capital structure . Among lots of the theory of capital structure , if we reconsider the customer satisfaction ,we would explain the theory of capital structure deeply . We select the customer satisfaction index as our observable variable . In brief , our study have two main purposes ¡G 1.Does customer satisfaction influence capital structure ? 2.If customer satisfaction influence capital structure by cash f low , how would it influence capital structure . This paper employs a database containing the market and accounting data (from 1996 to 2005) from more than 40 NYSE-listed companies(212 samples) to document our empirical study . We find that customer satisfaction has significant impact on capital structure by cash flow and the capital structure is nearly the same as the pecking order theory ¡Awhich suggest that firms are said to prefer retained earnings as their main source of funds for investment .

With the fast development in industry and commerce in Taiwan in recent years, a great deal of waste is called into being. Because the waste yards in every region reach saturation sequentially, it has become the domestic trend to build recycling plants in order to properly cope with the garbage problems. However, the conventional way the government puts up capital to build public works has to be confronted with adjustment owe of the governmental functions and the limits in finance. Therefore, privatizing the public works to introduce the non-governmental flexible operating methods and getting abundant capital to speed up the establishment of recycling plants and efficient operating goals have become the new critical points of public works in governmental environmental protection. The establishment of recycling plants takes a large number of funds and long period, during which there are many variables and high risk, and the main consideration of BOT invested by private enterprises is the rate of return on investment, so private enterprises have to study and analyze very carefully and map out the investment policies about how to carry out an investment evaluation and how to minimize or circumvent all kinds of risks in the executive process. Aimed at BOT¡¦s special properties of recycling plants, this research adopts the cash flow analysis and probes into the financial projects and risk control to provide the reference materials to factory owners who are interested in BOT and also the consideration of amending the BOT-related provisions to the relevant departments in government.

Abstract This thesis is composed of three models that imply the impact of managers¡¦ characteristics on investment under asymmetric information. The first one regards insider as managers and formulates a model to explain the positive relationship between cash flow and capital expenditure of a firm, and tries to synthesize the ¡§asymmetric information hypothesis¡¨(Myers and Majluf, 1984) and the ¡§free cash flow hypothesis¡¨(Jensen, 1986) by insider ownership. The finding demonstrates that in instances with low percentage of insider ownership, the free cash flow hypothesis will better explain the positive relationship between cash flow and capital expenditure and will have the phenomenon of over-investment. On the other hand, when the percentage of insider ownership is high, the asymmetric information hypothesis is better suited to explain this relationship and will have the phenomenon of the under-investment. The second one formulates a model to synthesize the ¡§reputation effect¡¨ and ¡§asymmetric information hypothesis¡¨ through considering the outsider investors¡¦ evaluation of the firms in terms of firms¡¦ reputation and firms¡¦ private information. This study concludes that the good type firms with low reputation will show the behavior of under-investment and the bad type firms with high reputation will have the phenomenon of over-investment. Moreover, the model demonstrates that both the phenomena of under-investment and of over-investment are caused by the conflict between the firms and the outsider investors. At last, this study implies that the effect of reputation has an influence on the choice of financial tools for the good type firms but does not have an influence on that of the bad ones. This study presents a general model to explain two types of investment inefficiency under the effect of reputation in a reasonable mode. The last one formulates a model to synthesize the ¡§bias effect¡¨ and ¡§reputation effect¡¨ through considering the fact that the CEO in the interest of firm is in favor of a certain project and that junior managers concern their reputation. This study concludes that the CEO¡¦s bias will influence the project that the managers suggest and does not necessarily lead to the direction of bias. The untalented managers will be affected more seriously than talented managers. Moreover, the model combines ¡§bias effect¡¨ with ¡§asymmetric information hypothesis¡¨ and implies that the bias can alleviate the problem of under-investment under certain circumstances. This finding shows that the bias is not always a negative factor of investment efficiency.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-85). Also available on the Internet.

Leipzig, Handelshochsch., Thesis (doctoral), 2000.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-85). Also available on the Internet.

<p>Previous research pertaining to the financial aspect of the mining industry has focused predominantly on mining products' values and the companies' sensitivity to exchange rates. There has been very little empirical research carries out in the field of the statistical behaviour of mning companies' cash flow data. This paper aimed to study the time-series behaviour of the cash flow data series of JSE listed mining companies.</p>

This thesis is an empirical and theoretical analysis of the impact of financing constraints on firm-level investment behaviour. Its primary objectives are to model this impact, and to test the restrictions these models place on the data. Chapter 1 contains a discussion of these themes, and provides an overview of the thesis. Chapter 2 addresses the empirical question of whether innovative firms are financially constrained. To answer this question, several structural investment equations are tested, and the sensitivity of physical investment expenditures to internal finance is compared across innovative and non-innovative firms. The investment expenditures of innovative firms are found to be more sensitive to cash flow than those of non-innovative firms. These results support the hypothesis that innovative firms are financially constrained. The third chapter builds a theoretical model to explain a widely reported fact in the inventory literature, which is that the variance of production exceeds the variance of sales. This fact contradicts a prediction of the standard Linear-Quadratic model of inventory investment, and for this reason is often referred to as the "excess variance of production" puzzle. In this chapter, a model of inventory investment is built. It is shown that when financing constraints are imposed on the model, it can explain the excess variance of production puzzle. In the absence of these constraints, the model does not deliver this result. The fourth chapter returns to the theme of identifying financially constrained firms. A weakness of existing tests of financing constraints is that they are not both direct and structural. This chapter addresses that criticism by constructing a model of investment from which is derived a simple and direct, structural test of the null hypothesis that a group of firms is financially constrained. The test is implemented on a panel of U.S. manufacturing firms. The results support the findings of existing tests.