This paper investigates the effect of investment opportunities, audit quality and debt maturity on the interest paid by all-equity firms. Debt holders are likely to charge higher interest to price-protect themselves because of the under-investment and asset substitution problems. All-equity...

The Study collects panel data of listed firms in New York Stock and Shanghai Stock Exchanges during 1992 to 2008. The data are used to perform panel regression estimates for firms in each stock market. The main purpose is to compare the decision on dividend payout of listed firms in the two...

Objective - The aims to identify the significant factors that influence a company's decision to use debt capital.Methodology/Technique - This study uses 5 independent variables namely; firm growth (growth rate in total gross assets), asset tangibility (ratio of net fixed assets to total assets),...

The objective of this research is to study the relationship between corporate debt financing and earnings quality and also to find the dominance of positive influence of debt or negative influence of debt on earnings quality. The research data were collected from 81 firms listed in Tehran Stock...