Every day, the firm's management must make critical strategic decisions that will determine the firm's success. The decision-making process of managers is impacted by various factors. My thesis aims to explain how market feedback from stock prices impacts company managers' decision-making processes through what is known as “learning from stock prices”. This process involves using information from the market prices, which aggregate data from a large number of various informed investors, to complement the managers' existing knowledge. Recent research has deepened into a new area of study, namely, the influence of peers' market prices on managers' decision-making processes. In the first paper, I explore how portfolio diversification affects the learning process from peers' stock prices and its impact on the firm's investment policy. In the second paper, I introduce a theoretical model that integrates the learning from peers' stock prices into the corporate payout decision-making process. The model provides case-specific managerial learning implications, which I test empirically on a panel of 629 US listed companies. Finally, I began investigating other factors that may affect firms' dividend payout policies and identified a potential research gap in examining the relationship between common ownership and payout policy. Thus, in the third paper I investigates how common ownership influences firms' payout policy decisions. The model is tested using a unique dataset that includes ownership information from 4,595 European listed firms with a diff-in-diff empirical approach.
Ogni giorno, i manager delle aziende devono prendere decisioni strategiche fondamentali che determineranno il successo delle loro aziende. Il processo decisionale dei manager è influenzato da vari fattori. La mia tesi ha l’obiettivo di spiegare come il feedback proveniente dai prezzi delle azioni che si formano sui mercati influisca sui processi decisionali dei manager aziendali attraverso il meccanismo noto come "learning from stock prices". Questo meccanismo comporta l'utilizzo delle informazioni proveniente dai prezzi di mercato delle azioni, che aggregano le informazioni di un gran numero di investitori differenti, per integrare quelle a disposizione dei manager. Le ricerche più recenti hanno approfondito una nuova area di studio, vale a dire l'influenza dei prezzi di mercato dei competitor sui processi decisionali dei manager. Nel mio primo paper, esploro come la diversificazione del portafoglio influisce sul processo di apprendimento di informazioni dai prezzi delle azioni dei competitor ed il suo impatto sulla politica di investimento dell'impresa. Nel secondo paper, introduco un modello teorico che integra l'apprendimento dai prezzi delle azioni dei competitor nel processo decisionale riguardante la payout policy aziendale. Il modello fornisce implicazioni sull’apprendimento di tali informazioni da parte dei manager che vado a testare empiricamente su un panel di 629 società quotate negli Stati Uniti. Infine, ho iniziato a indagare su altri fattori che possono influenzare le politiche di remunerazione degli azionisti delle imprese e ho identificato una potenziale gap di ricerca nell'esaminare la relazione tra common ownership e payout policy. Quindi, nel terzo articolo, indago su come la common ownership influenzi le decisioni sulle payout policy delle imprese. Il modello viene testato utilizzando un set di dati nuovo ed originale che include informazioni sulla ownership di 4.595 società europee quotate e addottando un approccio empirico diff-in-diff.
Three essays on the determinants of firms' strategic decisions
CALDARELLI, SIMONE
2023
Abstract
Every day, the firm's management must make critical strategic decisions that will determine the firm's success. The decision-making process of managers is impacted by various factors. My thesis aims to explain how market feedback from stock prices impacts company managers' decision-making processes through what is known as “learning from stock prices”. This process involves using information from the market prices, which aggregate data from a large number of various informed investors, to complement the managers' existing knowledge. Recent research has deepened into a new area of study, namely, the influence of peers' market prices on managers' decision-making processes. In the first paper, I explore how portfolio diversification affects the learning process from peers' stock prices and its impact on the firm's investment policy. In the second paper, I introduce a theoretical model that integrates the learning from peers' stock prices into the corporate payout decision-making process. The model provides case-specific managerial learning implications, which I test empirically on a panel of 629 US listed companies. Finally, I began investigating other factors that may affect firms' dividend payout policies and identified a potential research gap in examining the relationship between common ownership and payout policy. Thus, in the third paper I investigates how common ownership influences firms' payout policy decisions. The model is tested using a unique dataset that includes ownership information from 4,595 European listed firms with a diff-in-diff empirical approach.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14242/94231
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