The article analyses inter-dependencies between dividend, capital structure, and cost of capital, factoring the … concentrated ownership. Dividend, leverage, and average cost of capital are inter-linked. However, family firms pay lower dividends …

shareholder's need (i.e profitability) and regulatory requirements (liquidity and capital) is a delicate balance that banks strive … Union, the results show how banks in Europe strive to achieve profitability requirements at the same time meeting the … regulatory hurdles. The results indicate, better-capitalised banks lend much more, which in turn enhances profitability. Also …

The study applies two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrap to estimate the Profit Efficiency (PE) and … banks are more profit efficient than small and medium banks. Over the period, private banks showed the highest improvement …

Exchange and Thailand Stock Exchange from 2004 to 2013. We also investigate how firm-specific factors such as profitability … across all three countries. We find profitability has a significant negative influence on capital structure for Malaysia and …

-term debt ratios, and profitability of private banks in Ethiopia, for the period 2013/14 to 2018/19, using panel fixed effects … variables and some bank-specific characteristics explain a substantial part of the variations in bank profitability. Higher … profitability measures of ROA and net interest margin tend to be associated with relatively higher total and short-term debt ratios …

The study aims to understand the determinants of dividend trends of Indian firms. The study was based on a sample of 31 … were the most dividend intensive sectors in India. Partial least square structural equation modeling methodology (PLS SEM …) was employed to ex- amine the determinants of the dividend intensity of Indian firms. Different schemes of path models …

The study evaluates the impact of statutory audit and corporation tax charges on the profitability of Nigerian listed … the findings, corporate tax costs and statutory audit have a considerable impact on business profitability but while the … corporate tax impact positively on profitability, an immaterial negative effect on net asset base is established. The total …

This study seeks to compare profitability and profit efficiency of certified groundnut seed (CGS) and conventional … groundnut (CG) production in Northern Ghana using cross-sectional data. The two-step stochastic metafrontier profit model was … used to estimate profit efficiencies and their determining factors for CGS and CG producers. The study found that CGS …