, bond issuance, maturity structure, cash holdings, and bank borrowing policies. The focus here is on providing the required …

rating methodology and assess the ratings of these agencies in regards to Greece, France, and the USA. …

, and the state of the global economy, the loans’ maturity structure is identified as an additional driver of the bank …-wide loss rates in the credit portfolio. (ii) The nationwide loss rate has the largest impact, followed by the maturity …

financial crisis. We use six regional equity markets of varying degrees of maturity. While for the sample period Bulgaria …-period. The contradictory evidence is probably due to a different level of maturity, liquidity and interdependence for these …

when they suffer an earnings decline. We test three hypotheses behind the cash dividend policy: the maturity hypothesis … directors). The findings are largely consistent with the maturity hypothesis and the free cash flow hypothesis but do not …

We developed a market maturity index as a composite of the relative liquidity index (which was used historically to … measure market maturity) and a market sophistication index, constructed by analyzing market volume and transaction data. We … management index scores from 2007 to 2009, suggesting increasing maturity. On the other hand, South Africa, Taiwan and South …

of food wastes, increased the total nitrogen and the germination rate of alfalfa seed, shortened the maturity period and …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolutionary path to market maturity that China property market …/methodology/approach – In this research, the authors apply the market maturity framework and its key determinants based on previous work … progress towards greater market maturity. Research limitations/implications – The small same size of the survey is the major …

In this paper we first propose a proxy for the maturity of a country’s export bundle based on product life cycle theory …. Employing a conditional latent class model, we then examine the effect of maturity of countries’ exports on their economic … faster when they specialize in less mature products in an advanced country regime. The effect of maturity turns insignificant …