The aim of this paper is to analyse for a multi-country large emerging market sample the choice between debt and equity simultaneously with the decision between short-and long-term debt. In order to investigate the joint decision among leverage and maturity we examine an unique sample of 986...

This paper examines the impact of managerial entrenchment on financial flexibility, and financial leverage decisions of small public firms compared to medium and large firms based on market capitalization quartiles. E-index is a proxy for managerial entrenchment, and excess cash is a proxy for...

In this paper, we analyze the determinants of corporate saving in the form of changes in the stock of cash for 11 Asian economies using firm-level data from the Oriana Database for the 2002–2011 period. We find some evidence that cash flow has a positive impact on the change in the stock of...