Marc Deloof

University of Antwerp

Professor of Finance

Prinsstraat 13

Faculteit TEW

Antwerpen, 2000

Belgium

http://https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/marc-deloof/

University of Antwerp - Antwerp Management School

Boogkeers 5

Antwerp, 2000

Belgium

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

35

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73

Scholarly Papers (35)

1.

The Valuation of Ipos by Investment Banks and the Stock Market: Empirical Evidence

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Jan 2002
Vlerick Business School, University of Antwerp and Ghent University - Department of Economics
Downloads 3,075 (8,565)
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Company Valuation, Investment Banks, Initial Public Offering

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Earnings Management within Multinational Corporations

The Accounting Review 94 (4): 45-76
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 04 May 2010 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2019
Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management, London School of Economics, University of Antwerp and Maastricht University
Downloads 2,530 (11,627)
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Earnings management, Multinational corporations, Subsidiaries, Consolidation, Regulatory arbitrage, Enforcement, Regulation

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Why Do Holding Companies Trade at a Discount? A Clinical Study (*)

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Jan 2004
An Rommens, Marc Deloof and Marc Jegers
University of Antwerp, University of Antwerp and Free University of Brussels (VUB) - Micro-Economics for Profit and Non Profit Sector (MICE)
Downloads 2,485 (11,970)
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holding companies, closed-end fund discount, pyramidal groups, private benefits, case study

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The Debt Maturity Structure of Small Firms in a Creditor Oriented Environment

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Jun 2003
Dries Heyman, Marc Deloof and Hubert Ooghe
Ghent University - Department of Financial Economics, University of Antwerp and Vlerick Business School
Downloads 524 (111,131)
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debt maturity, capital structure, small firms

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Dividend Growth and Return Predictability: A Long-Run Re-Examination of Conventional Wisdom

Journal of Empirical Finance, Vol. 52, 2019
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 29 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2019
Gertjan Verdickt, Jan Annaert and Marc Deloof
University of Auckland - Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Antwerp Department of Accounting & Finance and University of Antwerp
Downloads 440 (137,221)
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return predictability, dividend growth predictability, equity duration, financial history

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Headquarters–Subsidiary Interdependencies and the Design of Performance Evaluation and Reward Systems in Multinational Enterprises

European Accounting Review Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 07 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2012
Yan Du, Marc Deloof and Ann Jorissen
EDHEC Business School, University of Antwerp and University of Antwerp - Department of Accounting & Finance
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headquarters–subsidiary interdependencies, performance evaluation and rewards, control systems, multinational enterprises

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Determinants of Corporate Financial Disclosure in an Unregulated Environment: Evidence from the Early 20th Century

European Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 02 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2009
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Maastricht University and University of Antwerp
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financial disclosure, financial reporting regulation, investor protection, bank relationships, pre-World War I Belgium

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Long Run Stock Returns: Evidence from Belgium 1838-2010

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Oct 2012
Jan Annaert, Frans Buelens and Marc Deloof
University of Antwerp Department of Accounting & Finance, University of Antwerp and University of Antwerp
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long run stock returns, equity premium, size effect, 19th and 20th centuries, Brussels stock exchange

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Earnings Management in Business Groups: Tax Incentives or Expropriation Concealment?

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 26 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2013
Christof Beuselinck and Marc Deloof
Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management and University of Antwerp
Downloads 363 (170,651)
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business groups; earnings management; marginal tax rate; ownership structure

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Banking on Innovation: Listed and Non-listed Equity Investing, Evidence from Société Générale de Belgique, 1850-1934

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2023
Marc Deloof and Gertjan Verdickt
University of Antwerp and University of Auckland - Department of Accounting and Finance
Downloads 342 (182,123)
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Private Equity, Universal Banking, Holding Companies

Do Universal Banks Create Value? Universal Bank Affiliation and Company Performance in Belgium, 1905-1909

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Feb 2007
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Antwerp Department of Accounting & Finance, University of Antwerp - Faculty of Applied Economics - City Campus and University of Antwerp
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Universal Banking, Company Performance, Company Risk, Director Interlocks

Do Universal Banks Create Value? Universal Bank Affiliation and Company Performance in Belgium, 1905-1909

Explorations in Economic History, Forthcoming
Posted: 17 Sep 2008
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Antwerp Department of Accounting & Finance, University of Antwerp - Faculty of Applied Economics - City Campus and University of Antwerp

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Company Performance, Company Risk, Universal Banks, Director Interlocks

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Business Elites, Political Connections, and Economic Entrenchment: Evidence from Belgium 1858-1909

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Jan 2010
University of Antwerp, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Antwerp
Downloads 239 (263,817)
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business elites, political connections, nobility, economic entrenchment, resource dependency, first and second industrial revolution, pre-World War I Belgium

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Were Modern Capital Structure Theories Valid Before World War I?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Feb 2007
Marc Deloof and Wouter Van Overfelt
University of Antwerp and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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capital structure, corporate income tax, investor protection, bank relationships, universal banks

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Who's Afraid of Universal Banks? Bank Affiliations and Corporate Dividend Policy in Pre-World War I Belgium

EFA 2007 Ljubljana Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 21 Feb 2007
University of Antwerp, University of Antwerp and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Dividend policy, universal banks, bank directors, investor protection, pre-World War I Belgium

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Who's Afraid of Foreigners? Religion, Trust, and Directors in Multinational Corporations

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Dec 2006
Marc Deloof and Catherine Campo
University of Antwerp and Independent
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religion, trust, national culture, multinational corporations, subsidiary control, board of directors

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Is Group Affiliation Profitable in Developed Countries? Not in Belgium

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Feb 2005
An Buysschaert, Marc Deloof and Marc Jegers
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Micro-economics for Profit and Non Profit Sector (MICE), University of Antwerp and Free University of Brussels (VUB) - Micro-Economics for Profit and Non Profit Sector (MICE)
Downloads 188 (330,659)
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business groups, internal capital markets, company performance

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The Long-Run Persistence of Dividend Policy

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 07 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2023
Leentje Moortgat, Jan Annaert and Marc Deloof
Ghent University, University of Antwerp and University of Antwerp
Downloads 166 (369,232)

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Dividend policy, Dividend smoothing, Imprinting, Financial history, Belgium

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Internal Capital Markets and the Debt Policy of Belgian Firms

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 28 Sep 2021
Marc Deloof
University of Antwerp
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Internal capital markets, debt policy, Belgium, multinational corporations, business groups

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The Value of Stable Ownership During the Global Financial Crisis

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 May 2013
Andy Lardon, Christof Beuselinck and Marc Deloof
University of Antwerp, Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management and University of Antwerp
Downloads 157 (387,381)
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Ownership Stability, Ownership Concentration, Global Financial Crisis, Stock Returns, Idiosyncratic Risk, Investments

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Bonds for the Long Run? The Rate of Return on Corporate Bonds in Belgium, 1838-1939

Van Mencxel, K., Annaert, J., & Deloof, M. (2024). Bonds for the long run? The rate of return on corporate bonds in Belgium, 1838-1939. Forthcoming at The Economic History Review.
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 01 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2024
Kevin Van Mencxel, Jan Annaert and Marc Deloof
University of Antwerp - Department of Accounting & Finance, University of Antwerp Department of Accounting & Finance and University of Antwerp
Downloads 156 (391,629)
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Indices, Long-Run Returns, Corporate Bonds, Historical Bond Markets, Data Bias

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The Flight Home Effect in Multinational Internal Capital Markets During the Great Recession

Paris December 2017 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 May 2017
Marc Deloof and Fabiola Montalto
University of Antwerp and University of Antwerp
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Internal capital markets, flight home effect, multinational firms, Great Recession, Italy

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Trade Credit and Bank Relationships: Evidence from Pre-World War I Belgium

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Jan 2009
Marc Deloof and Wouter Van Overfelt
University of Antwerp and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 135 (437,483)
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Trade credit policies, accounts receivable, bank relationships, pre-World War 1 Belgium

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The Value of Bank Relationships: Evidence from Belgium at the Start of the Great Depression

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Sep 2010
Marc Deloof and Veronique Vermoesen
University of Antwerp and University of Antwerp
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Bank relationships, Interlocking directorships, Busy directors, Firm value, Great Depression, Belgium

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Belgian Financial Elites and Destructive Entrepreneurship in King Leopold’s Congo Free State

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 11 Apr 2024
Marc Deloof
University of Antwerp
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Financial networks, destructive entrepreneurship, colonialism, Belgium, Congo

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When Do Firms Go Public? Stock and Bond IPOs in Belgium, 1839-1935

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Sep 2020
Marc Deloof, Abe de Jong and Wilco Legierse
University of Antwerp, Monash University and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
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Stock IPO, Bond IPO, Regulation, Investor Protection, Belgium

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Entrepreneurial Finance without Investor Protection: Evidence from IPOs in pre-World War I Belgium

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Sep 2022
Marc Deloof and Ine Paeleman
University of Antwerp and University of Antwerp
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entrepreneurial finance, investor protection, international entrepreneurship, IPOs; first era of globalization

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Board of Directors and Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from Belgium a Century Ago

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Jul 2024
University of Antwerp, University of Bergamo, University of Bergamo and University of Bergamo
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Board of directors, Initial public offerings, the turn of the twentieth century, unregulated markets, Belgium

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Naming and Shaming Unequal Voting Rights: Evidence from Dual-Class Shares in Interwar Belgium

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Feb 2025
Leentje Moortgat, Abe de Jong and Marc Deloof
Ghent University, Monash University and University of Antwerp
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Dual-class share structures, Voting rights, Agency conflicts, Event study, Financial history

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Financial Reporting, Disclosure, and Corporate Governance

The Oxford handbook of Corporate Governance, Oxford University Press, 2013, Chapter 13, pp. 290-307, ISBN 9780199642007
Posted: 05 Apr 2016
Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management, University of Antwerp and Vlerick Business School

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voluntary disclosure, information, disclosure regulations, private firms, public firms

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Cross-Jurisdictional Income Shifting and Tax Enforcement: Evidence from Public versus Private Multinationals

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Posted: 13 Dec 2014
Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management, University of Antwerp and Maastricht University

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tax planning, income shifting, tax enforcement, composite tax score

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Long-Term Debt Maturity and Financing Constraints of SMEs During the Global Financial Crisis

Small Business Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 10 Jun 2012
University of Antwerp, University of Antwerp and University of Antwerp

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Privately held SMEs, financing constraints, long-term debt maturity, Global Financial Crisis, Belgium

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Financial Disclosure by SMEs Listed on a Semi-Regulated Market: Evidence from the Euronext Free Market

Small Business Economics, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2014
Posted: 07 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2014
Andy Lardon and Marc Deloof
University of Antwerp and University of Antwerp

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Euronext Free Market, Financial disclosure regulation, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Firm value, Stock liquidity, Financial crisis

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How Does Intragroup Financing Affect Leverage? Belgian Evidence

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Vol. 31, No. 1, Winter 2006
Posted: 08 Dec 2005
Ilse Verschueren and Marc Deloof
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and University of Antwerp

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Leverage, business groups

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Private Equity Investments and Disclosure Policy

European Accounting Review Vol. 17, No. 4, December 2008
Posted: 11 Nov 2004 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2011
Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management, University of Antwerp and Vlerick Business School

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Disclosure choice, private equity, unlisted firms, corporate governance

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Equity Sales in Belgian Corporate Groups: Expropriation of Minority Shareholders? A Clinical Study

Posted: 22 Sep 2003
An Buysschaert, Marc Deloof and Marc Jegers
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Micro-economics for Profit and Non Profit Sector (MICE), University of Antwerp and Free University of Brussels (VUB) - Micro-Economics for Profit and Non Profit Sector (MICE)

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corporate groups, private benefits, tunneling, event study