This paper examines the equity market opening in Vietnam, a frontier market that has taken gradual steps of relaxing capital control, by analysing whether liberalization policies in the period 2009–15 have had an impact on informational efficiency. We applied time-varying Hurst exponent during...

The aim of this paper is to analyse for a multi-country large emerging market sample the choice between debt and equity simultaneously with the decision between short-and long-term debt. In order to investigate the joint decision among leverage and maturity we examine an unique sample of 986...

We provide one of the first large sample study to examine how firm-level characteristics and national-level institutions affect cash balances in privately held and publicly traded firms and investigate whether the determinants of cash holdings for both types of firms are similar. Using panel...