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debt structure, and the effect of this on corporate profitability. The assumption on which the study was based is that, if … profitability but no significant relationship between firm's working capital composition and profitability. The results, however … profitability is positively affected. The study therefore recommends that, for firms to optimize profitability and to maintain good …
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Profitability is substantial for any firm to maintain business and enable long-term sustainability. Firms' decision on … new empirical evidence on the influence of debt (debt ratio and debt to equity ratio) on firm profitability (ROA), with … significant correlation and negative influence of debt ratio and capital structure on firm profitability. …
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The tax laws of most developed countries are debt biased since firms can deduct interest on debt but not on equity. This bias is known to distort investment decisions. However, less is known about how the debt tax shield affects the ownership of assets when bidders differ financial expertise and...
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debt financing in the textile and apparel sector of Pakistan along with other controlled factors. The textile and apparel … sector of Pakistan comprises 464 listed entities as the targeted population while the study randomly finalized 60 firms as …, tangibility, liquidity, profitability, and growth as the controlling factors. The study estimated that the choice of total …
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This book comprises 19 papers published in the Special Issue entitled "Corporate Finance", focused on capital structure (Kedzior et al., 2020; Ntoung et al., 2020; Vintilă etal., 2019), dividend policy (Dragotă and Delcea, 2019; Pinto and Rastogi, 2019) and open-market share repurchase announcements (Ding...
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Operating leverage increases profitability and reduces optimal financial leverage. Thus, operating leverage generates a … negative relation between profitability and financial leverage that is thought to be inconsistent with the trade-off theory …, but is commonly observed in the data. We demonstrate the effect of operating leverage on firms' profitability and …
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We build a model of investment and financing decisions to study the choice between bonds and bank loans in a firm's marginal financing decision and its effects on corporate investment. We show that firms with more growth options, higher bargaining power in default, operating in more competitive...
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This paper develops a model with the novel feature that firms can renegotiate debt both in and outside distress. We show that this feature is crucial for debt renegotiation models to explain corporate policies and debt prices. Specifically, the model reflects empirical credit spread patterns,...
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