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This paper analyses company’s capital structure using a sample of listed companies on a ten year period. It mainly tackles one of the most debated issues in corporate finance, the relationship between profitability and debt level of a company. Shareholder funds are considered at book value,...
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Based on the Tobin’s q principle this paper shows that earnings per unit of capital and the output capital ratio are excellent measures of the required share returns because they are only temporarily affected by earnings shocks but are driven permanently by changes in required share returns....
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This article analyzes the determinants of capital structure of Tunisian companies in the light of various financial theories. We test empirically with a panel data approach, the three main theoretical frameworks addressing the capital structure of company; the Trade-off Theory, the Pecking Order...
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elements of leverage, book value of total debt ratio (BVTDR) and long term debt ratio (BVLTDR), were used to check for any … government, the study also concludes that GLCs are rely less on leverage to support their investment activities. …
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A major shortcoming of capital structure studies on developing economies is that they generally restrict their analyses to large publicly-traded manufacturing firms. Consequently, we know little about the applicability of various capital structure theories to firms that are private, small,...
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leverage and depict differences in industry and country characteristics. Using a short panel data set with a large cross …-section, we are able to show that firm size, industry leverage, industry growth and tax shield positively affect leverage ratios …
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The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of corporate finance theories in order to outline already established and future trajectories. Compared with the earliest theories developed in the field (which mainly focused on the capital structure irrelevance), specialist literature has been...
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The capital structure of companies has given rise to many works of analysis of its determinants. The research has evaluated the relevance of the determinants of managers’ options when making a decision on the type of financing. The present study evaluates the effects on debt, of the...
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elements of leverage, book value of total debt ratio (BVTDR) and long term debt ratio (BVLTDR), were used to check for any … government, the study also concludes that GLCs are rely less on leverage to support their investment activities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273127
emerging market economy, Turkey. We study both statistical and economic significance of four types of leverage factors: Firm … inflation is an important determinant of leverage and the most economically significant macroeconomic factor. Moreover, we … provide evidence that firms adjust their leverage towards the industry median, that firms match the maturity of their assets …
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