Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of macroeconomic factors on capital structure decisions of emerging firms. Design/methodology/approach – A panel data covering a period from 1990 to 2006 for 34 emerging market countries were analyzed using the seemingly unrelated...

The characteristics that distinguish most developing countries, compared to large industrialized countries, include: greater exposure to supply shocks in general and trade volatility in particular, procyclicality of both domestic fiscal policy and international finance, lower credibility with...

Mit dem risikowirtschaftlichen Modell verfolgen die Autoren das Ziel, den gesamtwirtschaftlichen Zusammenhang zwischen Unternehmensfinanzierung, Kapitalstockbildung, Einkommensbildung und Beschäftigung herauszuarbeiten. Ausgehend von der Frage, unter welchen Bedingungen die Kapitalstruktur...