O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a formação e a gestão do capital de giro em empresas de fruticultura irrigada localizadas no Vale do Rio São Francisco. A justificativa para esta investigação em empresas de agronegócio se dá pela expressiva participação do setor nos indicadores...

En este estudio analizamos el impacto de las restricciones al crédito en la inversión, los inventarios y el crecimiento empresarial con una muestra grande de pequeñas y medianas empresas de 12 economías europeas durante el período 2014-2016. Los datos provienen de la Encuesta sobre el...

There is a growing awareness that corporate governance variables play an important role in firm performance. While the majority of researchers argue that firm performance is positively associated with corporate governance structure, some other scholars suggest that there is no link between...

We study the impact of time-varying macroeconomic conditions on optimal dynamic capital structure and the aggregate dynamics of firms in a cross-section. Our structural-equilibrium framework embeds a contingent-claim corporate financing model within a standard consumption-based asset- pricing...

Extract: As the Heckscher-Ohlin-Mundell paradigm predicts, in a world where capital markets are perfect and production exhibits constant-returns to scale, while aggregate wealth endowments can be an important source of comparative advantage, their internal distribution does not matter for the...

Financial literature of cash or liquidity management has recently focused on the role of financial constraints on firms’ liquidity decision. Even though the accessibility to capital market is considered as one of major topics in hotel firms’ financial management considering high usage of...

We examine financial constraints and forms of finance used for investment, by analysing survey data on 157 large privatised companies in Hungary and Poland for the period 1998 – 2000. The Bayesian analysis using Gibbs sampling is carried out to obtain inferences about the sample companies’...

We study whether Russian Financial-Industrial Groups facilitate access by Russian firms to investment finance. We compare firms which are members of official Financial Industrial Groups and/or are owned by a large Russian bank with a control set of large firms categorized by dispersed ownership...

In this paper we use a survey of 281 Czech, Hungarian and Polish newly established small private firms in order to shed some light on the constrains these firms face in the credit market. The results of our survey show that imperfections in capital markets in Central European economies do not...

We estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of the private return to schooling for college graduates during China’s reform between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget-constraint effects as China’s education policy...