We examine the determinants of debt maturity in the Australian capital market with the Top 400 firms listed on the Australian Securities Exchange for the period 1989 to 2006. We find that Australian firms not only exhibit a positive leverage-maturity relationship but also use short-term debt to...

Price bubbles are a phenomenon of asset markets that contradicts market efficiency. In this paper we explore the prevalence of asset-price bubbles in Australian listed industrial equities and A-REIT markets. The Australian market is a unique setting to test for price bubbles, given the regular...

We explore the prevalence of asset-price bubbles in Australian listed industrial equities and A-REIT markets. In contrast to the US listed stock markets, we find little evidence of asset-price bubbles in historical returns of Australian markets (1992-2016). Our findings are robust to the choice...