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Capital Structure around the World: The Roles of Firm- and Country-Specific Determinants
Jong, A. de; Kabir, R.; Nguyen, T.T. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2007
We analyze the importance of firm-specific and country-specific factors in the leverage choice of firms from 42 countries around the world. Our analysis yields two new results. First, we find that firm-specific determinants of leverage differ across countries, while prior studies implicitly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288578
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Capital Structure around the World: The Roles of Firm- and Country-Specific Determinants
de Jong, de Jong, A.; Kabir, Kabir, R.; Nguyen, Nguyen, T.T. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
We analyze the importance of firm-specific and country-specific factors in the leverage choice of firms from 42 countries around the world. Our analysis yields two new results. First, we find that firm-specific determinants of leverage differ across countries, while prior studies implicitly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731306
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Does religion affect capital structure?
Baxamusa, Mufaddal; Jalal, Abu - In: Research in International Business and Finance 31 (2014) C, pp. 112-131
We hypothesize that if the cultural characteristics of a region are important, then firms located in Protestant- and Catholic-majority counties within the U.S. will have different attitude toward leverage. We find that a 1% increase in a county's Protestant religiosity leads to a 0.4% lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010753098
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All manners of food : eating and taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the present
Mennell, Stephen - 1986 - Repr.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004620163
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Institutional, macroeconomic and firm-specific determinants of capital structure: The African evidence
Lemma, Tesfaye Taddese; Negash, Minga - In: Management Research Review 36 (2013) 11, pp. 1081-1122
Purpose - The study aims to investigate the role of institutions, macroeconomic conditions, industry and firm characteristics on firm's capital structure decision within the context of nine African countries. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 986 firms over the period 1999-2008 were...
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Controversial issues in factors determining intra-industry trade
Ferto, Imre; Soós, Károly Attila - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 132-148
We examine some controversial country-specific factors influencing vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade including foreign direct investment and income distributions. As concerns, the effect of differences in countries’ levels of economic development (richness), both theories and...
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Business and religion in Britain
Jeremy, David J. (contributor) - 1988
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004062767
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An Investigation into the Impact of Income, Culture and Religion on Consumption Behaviour: A Comparative Study of the Malay and the Chinese Consumers in Malaysia
Fatt Sian, Lai - 2009
environments such as culture, race and religion. The growing interest ininvestigating the relation between psychographics and … to ensure certainty of profitability. This is especially relevantin the modern market where “crossing culture” (Davies … groups of diverse culture and religious background, i.e. the Malays andthe Chinese, within a single Malaysian community. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009440942
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Institutional stickiness of democracy in post-communist states: Can prevailing culture explain it?
Krasnozhon, Leonid - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 26 (2013) 2, pp. 221-237
stickiness of democracy depends on a combination of causal factors, including underlying political culture (Boettke et al …
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An Analysis of the Effect of Culture and Religion on Perceived Corruption in a Global Context
Mensah, Yaw - In: Journal of Business Ethics 121 (2014) 2, pp. 255-282
This study examines the role of both religion and culture [as measured by the cultural clusters of countries in the … GLOBE study of House et al. (Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies, <CitationRef …, relative to the Protestant Christian religion, the non-Protestant Christian religion, the Islamic religion, and Other Religion …
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