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Reconciling capital structure theories in predicting the firm's decisions.
Palkar, Darshana - 2006
Past literature attempts to resolve the issue of the motivation behind managers' choice of a given capital structure. Despite several decades of intensive research, there is still no consensus about which theory dominates capital structure decisions. The present study empirically investigates...
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Determinants of capital structure for A-REITs
Chikolwa, Bwembya - 2009
Using panel data methodology, the determinants of capital structure in 34 Australia listed property trusts (A …
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The capital structure practises of listed firms in South Africa
Kasozi, Stephen Jason - 2009
This study examines the divide between finance theory and practice by analysing thesignificance of the determinants of capital structure choice among 123 listed firms on the JSE, todetermine whether these firms follow the trade-off theory or the pecking-order theory.Data obtained from...
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Análise dos determinantes do endividamento das empresas de capital aberto do agronegócio brasileiro
Bressan, Valeria Gama Fully; Lima, Joao Eustaquio de; … - 2009
CNAclassification. The study used data from the Economatica® database, with theadoption of panel data methods. The results indicated …
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Essays on the Dynamics of Capital Structure
Farhat, Joseph - 2003
Tests of the static trade-off theory that posits that firms movetowards the optimum capital structure necessitate a jointhypothesis test - whether firms adjust toward target leverage, andwhether the proxy used for target leverage is the true targetleverage. Prior studies use the time-series mean...
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Essays on the Dynamics of Capital Structure
Farhat, Joseph - 2003
Tests of the static trade-off theory that posits that firms move towards the optimum capital structure necessitate a joint hypothesis test - whether firms adjust toward target leverage, and whether the proxy used for target leverage is the true target leverage. Prior studies use the time-series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451129
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Determinants of the use of debt and leasing in UK corporate financing decisions
Dzolkarnaini, Mohd Nazam - 2009
methods, namely cross-sectional pooled regression, static and dynamic panel data regression, and quantile regression to … approach cannot measure firms’ diversity. This finding implies that average model results (e.g., from OLS or panel data models … decisions are the same for all firms in the economy is clearly unrealistic.Using the dynamic panel data model, this thesis …
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Analysis of the Capital Structure of German Companies with the SSA and SVM
Pohlmann, Tim Fabien - 2007
This thesis presents and compares the performance of two recently developed classification methods namely the Spatial Stagewise Aggregation procedure and Support Vector Machines. Both techniques are convenient for the application to corporate bankruptcy analysis, in terms of calculation of...
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The Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy Law
Wohlschlegel, Ansgar - 2002
Apart from an extensive survey of the literature on the economics of corporate bankruptcy law, this thesis contains three own contributions: First, a model is presented where a firm's manager acquires some private information about whether a firm should be liquidated or stay in business....
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TESTING THE PECKING ORDER THEORY AND THE SIGNALING THEORY FOR FARM BUSINESSES
Zhao, Jianmei; Katchova, Ani L.; Barry, Peter J. - 2004
Numerous empirical studies in the finance field have tested many theories for firms¡¦ capital structure. Under the assumption of asymmetric information, the pecking order theory proposes the financing order for farm businesses, which implies a negative relationship between their cash flow and...
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