Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use a dynamic model to investigate capital structure determinants for 178 firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange for the period 1998‐2008. The sample of firms is also used to examine the cost and speed of adjustment towards a target debt...

Using a panel of listed firms in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe, we investigate corporate capital structure in Africa, with emphasis on the extent to which firm characteristics and cross-country institutional differences determine the way firms raise capital. Results indicate...

We use a World Bank survey data on the financing of incremental production to examine firms’ debt choice decision in eleven African countries, where capital markets are evolving and/or fraught with inadequate institutional infrastructure. Such a landscape suggests that hitherto overlooked...

How do legal environments and finance affect investments by firms in the East African community? Property rights, external and internal finance channels - key conduits of the transmission mechanism from 'legal environment' to 'investment'- individually and interactively affect firms' decision...

Labour market flexibility is an important issue in both development and labour economics. More flexibility in the labour market is believed to facilitate job creation, but also makes it easy for employers to terminate employment contracts and may be in conflict with the notion of decent jobs as...