firm's financing structure. We analyze the interaction between a firm's capital structure and the type of contracts it uses … substantially more equity financing. …

crisis: a deterioration in contract enforceability and an increase in nonperforming loans. As a result, the credit crunch in …

Under weak contract enforcement the trading parties' trust, defined as their belief in other's trustworthiness, appears … important for realizing gains from trade. In contrast, under strong contract enforcement beliefs about other's trustworthiness … appear less important, suggesting that trust and contract enforcement are substitutes. Here we show, however, that trust and …

Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics … innovate and the change in the propensity to innovate no longer varies with firm characteristics. We find that financing …

the tax distortions to corporate financing decisions amounts to 2-3 percent of total corporate tax revenue, and the …