structure and leverage. It therefore takes into consideration the existence of any significant differences between the leverage … structure than those of non-family owned businesses. This indicates that most family firms use less debt financing than non …-family firms, and as such maintain a lower level of debt. Secondly, family firms demonstrate lower risk as illustrated by the …

) which factors - country- or firm-specific - are more relevant in explaining leverage in Poland, (2) which theory - trade … itself mainly in gradual increase in debt ratios with a dominant role of short-term debt, along with the decrease in the … importance of country-specific factors (especially in large-sized, listed firms). The signs of the associations between leverage …

by curbing risk-taking incentives, the higher the leverage the bank is permitted to take on. Consequently, the risk …

in a firm's leverage decision during economic uncertainty and recommends increasing debt financing to incentivize value … corporate leverage relationship. Using stepwise regression analysis and annual firm-level data of 2,534 U.S. firms listed at … NYSE over 1995-2018, we provide novel evidence that cash holdings significantly and partially mediate the EPU-leverage …

performance levels. The capital structure of Austrian SMEs are biased towards debt-financing and stronger equity, growth and …

Debt-ridden corporate growth and increased vulnerability was one of the causes of the 1997 financial crisis in Korea … even when we control for the leverage regulation effect (ii) enhanced compliance with leverage regulation and thus reduce …

We contribute to the empirical literature on the debt bias of corporate income taxation through a micro …-econometric evaluation of the so-called ACE corporate tax reform in Belgium based on firm-level accounting data. We interpret the tax reform … that came into effect in January 2006 as an economic quasi experiment. We identify its causal impact on the leverage ratio …