Since its publication, the seminal structural model of default by <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B45">Merton (1974) has become the workhorse for gaining insights about how firms choose their capital structure, a “bread and butter” topic for financial economists. Capital structure theory is inevitably linked to several...</xref>

We examine the levels and determinants of cash in Latin America. Latin American firms, as opposed to U.S. firms, did not hoard cash during the 1995-2006 period. However, we find remarkable similarities with respect to the determinants of cash between U.S. and Latin American firms. Net working...

Divergence of opinion causes market prices to differ from intrinsic values. Greater divergence of opinion results in larger bid/ask spreads. This study utilizes Miller’s theory (Miller, 1977) which states that differences between bid and ask prices (price spread) is caused by divergence...

The goal of the scoring method is to provide predictive models for the assessment of the bankruptcy risk of an enterprise. Its implementation requires observing a set on enterprises from two different groups: a group of companies with financial difficulties and a group of enterprises with no...

To manage the investment activity of a company there is an indicator of investment projects efficiency (Net Present Value). One of the problems of its calculating is the impact of many independent factors on NPV changes, that's why it is suggested that the calculation of the investment project...

Share issues are a significant source of finance for non-financial corporations in Belgium. Between 1995 and 2005, they represented around 32 p.c. of the cumulative new liabilities of non-financial corporations. Share issues are therefore the second most important source of finance, the first...

This study analyzes how the relationship between non-controlling and controlling large shareholders affects corporate valuations. Using data from the Chinese market, we find that a firm's value is lower when its non-controlling large shareholders have a relationship with its controlling...

In this paper we obtain expressions for both the tax benefit of debt and the return on equity, when the company and the debt grow, under the non-integrated tax system prevailing in the USA. Then we develop the equivalent expressions under a totally integrated tax system. The main contribution of...