We explore the effect of financial development on corporate capital structure and the tightness of financial constraints that firms face. We employ an econometric technique which allows us to explicitly test for convergence in capital structure. This technique increases the power of our...

We examine the capital structure dynamics of Central and Eastern European firms to get a better understanding of the quantitative and qualitative development of the financial systems in this region. The dynamic model used endogenizes the target leverage as well as the adjustment speed. It is...

This paper explores the capital structure of listed Vietnamese companies in the broader context of financial development (the recent expansion of domestic equity and debt capital markets). Accordingly, the paper provides the first insights into the capital structure of listed companies in one of...

This paper investigates the determinants of capital structure for a sample of 13,070 small medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and 67,449 firm-year observations from Eastern European countries over the period 1994-2004. The use of a sample of SMEs in our analysis rather than large listed firms...

We estimate firms' cash flow sensitivity of cash to empirically test how the financial system's structure and activity level influence their financial constraints. For this purpose we merge Almeida, Campello and Weisbach (2004), a pathbreaking new design for evaluating a firm's financial...

This paper investigates on what drives the different determinants of systemic risk contribution in different countries, based on a dataset for commercial banks in a bank-based system (the BRICs and Japan) and a market-based system (the US). In both separate and pooled systems, the determinants...