Corporate pension plans and investment choices: bargaining or conforming?

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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
Subjects:	Defined-benefit pension; DB plan coverage; bargaining power; Conforming motive; Diversifying acquisitions
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47325/

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