The paper considers direct and indirect impacts of bank concentration, property rights and financial freedom on corporate leverage in 12 Asian developing countries from 2000 to 2013. Our result shows that bank concentration has a directly negative relationship with leverage in these countries...

The paper finds that the debt deficit and window of opportunities significantly affect firms' financing decisions in developing Asia. Firms tend to increase the probability of issuing pure debt rather than other financing sources if room to the optimal level of debt is still available. While an...

The process firms use to choose their capital structures is explained by different corporate finance theories in which trade-off and pecking order are the two most popular hypotheses. Testing these two models will help to determine whether a target debt ratio exists, and if so, how rapidly firms...