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Large Shareholder Diversification and Corporate Risk-Taking by Faccio, Mara, Marchica, Maria-Teresa, Mura, Roberto

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Nervous Facilitation in Cardiodynamic Response of Exercising Athletes to Superimposed Mental Tasks: Implications in Depressive Disorder by Tocco, Filippo, Crisafulli, Antonio, Milia, Raffaele, Marongiu, Elisabetta, Mura, Roberto, Roberto, Silvana, Todde, Francesco, Concu, Daniele, Melis, Salvatore, Velluzzi, Fernanda, Loviselli, Andrea, Concu, Alberto, Melis, Franco

“…Motor commands to perform exercise tasks may also induce activation of cardiovascular centres to supply the energy needs of the contracting muscles. Mental…”
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CEO gender, corporate risk-taking, and the efficiency of capital allocation by Faccio, Mara, Marchica, Maria-Teresa, Mura, Roberto

“…We extend the literature on how managerial traits relate to corporate choices by documenting that firms run by female CEOs have lower leverage, less volatile…”
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Large Shareholder Diversification and Corporate Risk-Taking by Faccio, Mara, Marchica, Maria-Teresa, Mura, Roberto

“…Using new data for the universe of firms covered in Amadeus, we reconstruct the portfolios of shareholders who hold equity stakes in private- and publicly…”
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Firm Performance: Do Non-Executive Directors Have Minds of their Own? Evidence from UK Panel Data by Mura, Roberto

“…I investigate the relation between firm performance and both ownership structure and board composition. Use of the GMM methodology permits simultaneous control…”
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When Paid Work Gives in to Unpaid Care Work: Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry Under COVID-19 by Ain Tommar, Sara, Kolokolova, Olga, Mura, Roberto

“…We examine how childcare inequalities in the home affect the work productivity of female talent, using unique data on the family structures of hedge fund…”
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Energy Management Design in Hybrid Electric Vehicles: A Novel Optimality and Stability Framework by Mura, Roberto, Utkin, Vadim, Onori, Simona

“…This paper addresses the problem of finding a closed-form optimal solution for the energy management problem in charge-sustaining hybrid electric vehicles…”
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Eficacia de la escala de Alvarado en pacientes con diagnóstico de apendicitis aguda, en el Servicio de Cirugía General del Hospital Regional de Ciudad del Este by Rivas-Aquino, Natalia Noemí, Araujo-Medina, Idalia Agustina, Mura, José Roberto, Vázquez-Rivas, Norberto Raúl

“…RESUMEN Objetivo: Evaluar la eficacia de la Escala de Alvarado para el diagnóstico de la Apendicitis aguda en pacientes dentro del Servicio de Cirugía General…”
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Owners’ Portfolio Diversification and Firm Investment by Lyandres, Evgeny, Marchica, Maria-Teresa, Michaely, Roni, Mura, Roberto

“…Portfolio diversification of firms’ controlling owners influences their firms’ capital investment. Empirically, the effect of owners’ portfolio diversification…”
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Financial Flexibility and Investment Ability Across the Euro Area and the UK by Ferrando, Annalisa, Marchica, Maria‐Teresa, Mura, Roberto

“…We use a very large sample of European private and public firms to show that financial flexibility attained through a conservative leverage policy is more…”
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Financial Flexibility, Investment Ability, and Firm Value: Evidence from Firms with Spare Debt Capacity by Marchica, Maria-Teresa, Mura, Roberto

“…We document, for the first time, that a conservative leverage policy directed at maintaining financial flexibility can enhance investment ability. Our analysis…”
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Rating friends: The effect of personal connections on credit ratings by Khatami, Seyed Hossein, Marchica, Maria-Teresa, Mura, Roberto

“…Using a large sample of US public debt issues we show that personal connections between directors of issuing companies and rating agencies result in higher…”
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Body composition changes during the lockdown-restart transition due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in a group of professional football players by Ghiani, Giovanna, Roberto, Silvana, Mura, Roberto, Fois, Francesco, Scorcu, Marco, Crisafulli, Antonio

“…At the beginning of March 2020, because of the ongoing pandemic, all sport events were suspended in Italy. The Italian Serie A league abruptly interrupted all…”
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Shareholder diversification and bank risk-taking by García-Kuhnert, Yamileh, Marchica, Maria-Teresa, Mura, Roberto

“…Using the entire universe of Bankscope and Amadeus Top 250,000 we construct the portfolios of shareholders who hold equity stakes in publicly traded and…”
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Climate variation in metropolitan cities by Ginevra Balletto, Martina Sinatra, Roberto Mura, Giuseppe Borruso

“…Climate has always been studied in cities, where strong relations can be found with urban form and spatial patterns. Temperature variations, heat islands and…”
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The effect of 'underwriter-issuer' personal connections on IPO underpricing by Khatami, Seyed Hossein, Marchica, Maria-Teresa, Mura, Roberto

“…Using a large sample of US IPOs between 1999 and 2020, we show that personal connections between directors and top executives of issuers and those of…”
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Corporate acquisitions and financial constraints by Khatami, Seyed Hossein, Marchica, Maria-Teresa, Mura, Roberto

“…Using a large sample of US acquisitions made between 1985 and 2013, we study the effect of financial constraints on acquisition gains and acquisition…”
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A 12-Week Vigorous Exercise Protocol in a Healthy Group of Persons over 65: Study of Physical Function by means of the Senior Fitness Test by Tocco, Filippo, Crisafulli, Antonio, Magnani, Sara, Fois, Francesco, Pau, Massimiliano, Mura, Roberto, Melis, Franco, Todde, Francesco, Ibba, Gianfranco

“…The aim of this study was to assess the effects of vigorous exercise on functional abilities by means of a Senior Fitness Test (SFT) in a group of elderly…”
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Synthesis of new compounds with promising antiviral properties against group A and B Human Rhinoviruses by Bernard, Angela M., Cabiddu, Maria G., De Montis, Stefania, Mura, Roberto, Pompei, Raffaello

“…The human common cold, which is a benign disease caused by the Rhinoviruses, generally receives palliative symptomatic treatments, since no specific therapy…”
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Financial Flexibility, Investment Ability, and Firm Value: Evidence from Firms with Spare Debt Capacity by Marchica, Maria-Teresa, Mura, Roberto

“…We document, for the first time, that a conservative leverage policy directed at maintaining financial flexibility can enhance investment ability. Our analysis…”
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