This study aggregates prior research on the speed of adjustment (SOA) towards target capital structure, which is characterized by its heterogeneous findings. Therefore, the statistical procedures of meta-regression analysis are applied for the first time in this line of research. Summarizing...

The aim of this study is to analyze the interaction between capital structure decisions and risk management decisions as well as the channels through which they add value to firms. Therefore, competing theories are considered in an integrated path model, which we test by means of meta-analytic...

This study aggregates the mixed empirical evidence of the seven most commonly investigated determinants of corporate capital structure. We apply meta-regression analysis on a data set of 3,890 reported results, manually collected from 100 primary studies covering firm observations from 57...