Islamic finance – financial institutions, products and services designed to comply with the central tenets of Sharia (Islamic law) – is one of the most rapidly growing segments in global financial services. However, despite its growing importance, it is only relatively recently that attempts...

The Islamic law prohibits charging and paying of interest but allowsearning profits on the basis of participation in the market. This legal injunctionhas motivated the establishment and successful operation of a number ofIslamic financial institutions. The emergence and rise of these...

What is the cross-sectional relationship between financial leverage and expected equity returns? How is the empirical relationship associated with firm's financial decisions? This dissertation investigates the potential explanations for the flatness relation between financial leverage and...

This study intends to verify which variables affect the financial leverage of Brazilian agribusiness companies, considering the migration in the indebtedness ranges as proposed in the model of Matarazzo (1998). 26 companies were selected in accordance to the following links of the agribusiness...

Magistriniame darbe atskleidžiamas kapitalo struktūros ir finansinių svertų analizės, kaip vienos iš naujausių finansų valdymo teorijos srities, turinys ir panaudojimo svarba ūkinės – komercinės veiklos rezultatų gerinimui bei kapitalo struktūros optimizavimui. Darbe taip pat...

Tyrimo objektas - kapitalo struktūros formavimas ir jį sąlygojantys egzogeniniai veiksniai.Darbo tikslas – nustatyti šalies egzogeninių veiksnių įtaką Lietuvos įmonių kapitalo struktūros formavimo sprendimams.Uždaviniai: pateikti įmonių kapitalo struktūros formavimo teorijų...

Darbo objektas – įmonių kapitalo struktūros formavimas ir jį įtakojantys veiksniai.Darbo tikslas – nustatyti kapitalo struktūros kitimo tendencijas ir jos formavimą įtakojančių veiksnių poveikį Lietuvos įmonėse. Darbo tikslui pasiekti keliami šie uždaviniai: • atskleisti...

This paper examines time-series patterns of external financing decisions and shows that publicly traded U.S, firms fund a much larger proportion of their financing deficit with external equity when the cost of equity capital is low. The historical values of the cost of equity capital have...

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...

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....