During the 1990s, overall economic performance of South East Asian countries was remarkable in many respects, including a significant increase in economic development. This paper empirically assesses the reasons behind such progress by focusing on the impact of foreign direct investment, trade...

This paper investigates the impact of financial liberalization on the adjustment of debt ratios in 12 emerging markets using firm-level data from 1991 to 2004. The results support the central hypothesis of this paper that adjustment costs are important in explaining firms' adjustment toward...

This paper investigates variation in the cost of equity capital for the Southeast Asian countries using firm-level data over the period of 1990-2004. It is found that decreases in the firm-level cost of equity capitall have been associated with stock market liberalization and securities market...