role of leverage in mediating the influence of male CEO masculinity on research and development. This study uses a … leverage has an impact on increasing and decreasing the masculinity value of male CEOs as well as increasing and decreasing the … masculinity for male CEOs has an impact on increasing the value of leverage as well as research and development, and leverage …

the role of Earnings Management in mediating the influence of male CEO masculinity on leverage. This research uses a … masculinity face of male CEOs also has an impact on increasing and decreasing the value of corporate leverage. … and utilized Google searches. The data analysis method in this study uses Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Stata …

This study examines the relationship between corporate managers' political ideology and corporate leverage policies … Republican managers significantly reduce leverage during periods of high investor sentiment. To the best of the authors …' knowledge, this paper is the first to document that Republican managers are not swayed by the general tendency to increase …

conflicts, managers may not always adopt leverage choices that maximize shareholders' value. Consistent with the prediction of … significantly lower leverage, probably to evade the disciplinary mechanisms associated with debt financing. Our results are …

debt ratio and faster (slower) leverage adjustments toward the shareholders' desired level for over-levered (under …

do not condition on the diversification status of firms. Entrenched managers in focused firms eschew leverage, whereas … entrenched managers in diversified firms take advantage of their better access to debt finance and use more financial leverage … leverage in diversified firms. In contrast, we find a negative relation between managerial entrenchment and leverage in focused …