Corporate pension plans and investment choices: bargaining or conforming?

This paper investigates the impacts of defined-benefit (DB) pension plans on the corporate investment choices between diversifying and non-diversifying investments. We find a firm’s DB plan coverage is negatively associated with its propensity of making a major investment. Subject to a major investm...

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Main Authors: Duygun, Meryem, Huang, Bihong, Qian, Xiaolin, Tam, Lewis H.K.
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47325/