This concept paper synthesises the special issue with an integrated discussion of all four papers published therein, from the viewpoint of the theme of this special issue: opportunities and challenges for future empirical research in corporate finance. The four papers highlight that future...

We study the financial determinants of cash holdings and discuss the importance of firm size in the post-crisis period. We employ panel data regression analysis on a sample of 6629 non-financial and non-utility listed companies in the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2018. We focus on the comparative...

The study aims to investigate the nexus between financing decision, ownership type and financial performance of listed non-financial companies in Ghana. Data were selected from 22 listed non-financial companies on the Ghana Stock Exchange from the years 2010 to 2021. A non-parametric estimation...

As the number of "ownerless" enterprises in China's capital market increases, so does the importance of paying attention to their behavior. From the perspective of enterprises' control rights allocation, we find that non-actual controllers can inhibit corporate innovation by intensifying agency...

This study examines corporate governance, capital structure, financial performance, and firm value in the Jakarta Islamic Index. The technique of data analysis uses Partial Least Square (PLS), with structural equations (SEM) based on components or variants, on annual data from 2015 to 2021 to...

This study empirically investigates the association between board attributes and capital structure decisions of non-financial listed firms in Bangladesh. This study also investigates how this association is shaped and moderated by the level of insider ownership. The current study takes 3096...

This paper examines the impact of real earnings management (REM) on the capital structure of listed firms across ASEAN countries using the fixed effects panel data estimator for the period 2014-2019. Prior literature has focused primarily on aggregate real earnings management, overlooking the...

This paper examines the dynamics trade-off financial structure in presence of ownership dispersion of newly created firms. Our objective is to test empirically the relevance of trade-off theory regards the debt funding behavior of business start-up. We use a sample of 200 business start-ups and...

This study explores whether risk mediates the relationship between good corporate governance (GCG), Sharia capital structure, and Sharia financing structure on the financial performance of Islamic banks in Indonesia. The research utilized purposive sampling, selecting a sample of nine banks from...

This paper shows that the cost of enforcing contracts governing non-financial relationships between firms affects a firm's financing structure. We analyze the interaction between a firm's capital structure and the type of contracts it uses to deal with its suppliers. We first develop a...