This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms' investment and financing decisions. It assesses the role of uncertainty, financial imperfections, corporate governance and taxation. Evidence is obtained using several unique and high quality microeconomic data-sets, which...

The study analysed the impact of financing patterns (FPs) on the financial performance of 226 listed small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Firm size, age, liquidity, sales growth (SG), and asset tangibility (AT) are treated as firm-specific control variables. The result indicates that total debt...