-specific institutional factors – financial, legal, and labor market institutions – affect the group-innovation relationship. The empirical …, GAFs are more innovative than SAFs: we estimate the innovation propensity of GAFs to be 9% higher than that of SAFs …

This dissertation is anchored in the disruptive impact of China’s resource-based economic expansion over the last two … decades. Whilst the country’s economic growth follows traditional patterns of development, the size of China’s population … reversal of commodity exporting countries’ terms of trade are a result of China’s non-marginal impact of consumption. This …

, whose prime activity is the exploitation of logs for processing industries in China, to limit their participation in forward …' market focuses, motivations, and capabilities, as well as conclusions drawn about comparative advantages and linkage …

China’s coalmining fatalities were 140 times higher than the U.S. in the last decade. To shed light on this issue, we … form and examinea unique panel dataset of 25,387 firm-year observations for China’s coalmining industry. We show that a … firm’s leverage significantly determines its coalmining fatality: A 10% increase in the debt ratio leads, on average, to a …

show that profitability and liquidity are negatively and significantly related to leverage. Also asset tangibility has a … positive relationship with leverage, which is significant. Moreover the researcher finds that total debt ratio at market value …

show that profitability and liquidity are negatively and significantly related to leverage. Also asset tangibility has a … positive relationship with leverage, which is significant. Moreover the researcher finds that total debt ratio at market value …

marginal tax rate (MTR) and its variants to study the tax effects on leverage ratios of profitable Indian companies. The paper … analyses three different measures of leverage; debt to asset (DAR) ratio, incremental debt to total assets ratio (DINC) and … debt to capital employed (DAR1) ratio. For each measure of leverage ratio, different specifications based on four variants …

This paper investigates the relationship between leverage and the financial performance of listed firm in Kenya. We use … leverage significantly, and negatively, affects the profitability of listed firms in Kenya. However, leverage has no effect on …

on two choice variables, the leverage and the ownership structure of the foreign affiliate, and we distinguish different … that as political risk increases the ownership share always decreases whereas leverage can both increase or decrease …