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Tese Essays on Empirical Corporate Finance(2023) Macoris, Lucas SerrãoThis thesis has three chapters, all of them aimed at empirically investigating a specific research question related to the Corporate Finance literature. In the first chapter of the thesis, I investigate the relationship between liquidity shocks and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activity during peridos of credit supply shortfalls and show that firms that have higher levels of expiring debt maturities in the year of the credit shock are more likely to become targets in M&A deals. Moreover, these firms invest more and issue more debt after the deal relative to other financially constrained firms that did not undergo such transactions. Finally, we show that these firms are shifting from issuing debt in their own countries to issuing debt in countries with historically higher issuance volume, show ing that M&As can work as leeway to relieve financing frictions in periods when credit supply frictions are more prevalent. In the second chapter of the thesis, I study the effects of the introduction of the solvency margin rule in the Brazilian healthcare industry using a differences-in-differences approach to show that more exposed firms grew their customer base less than their counterparts, and that this effect persists even after three years of the solvency margin implementation. When it comes to firm-level prospects, I show that this higher exposure also affects firms’ future financial fundamentals, firms’ likelihood of being delisted, and is negatively correlated with changes in the median price levels for customer healthcare plans. Finally, to the extent that this differential growth trend is capable of shifting aggregate industry fundamentals, I show that states with a higher portion of exposed firms saw their market concentration surge 22% more than their counterparts. Finally, the third and last chaption of this thesis studies the potential determinants of firms’ debt structure decisions over time by studying the interplay between ownership and debt structure decisions. By exploiting exogenous variation in mutual funds’ passive ownership due to Russell 1000/2000 index assignments between 2010 and 2019, the estimates presented in this chapter show that a one standard deviation increase in passive ownership is related to a 29% decrease in debt concentration. In a subsequent set of results, it is possible to see that results are entirely driven by smaller firms, are mostly leaned towards increases in Commercial Papers, Term Loans and Revolving Credit, and are unrelated to other firms’ ex-post fundamentals.