Modigliani and Miller theories, held as one of the most important theoretical compass for the world of Corporate Finance, has stated some aspects and measurements in which will determine one company’s step of heading towards financial decision of its capital structure. Modigliani and Miller...

The relationship between product market performance of a firm and its capital structure has drawn considerable amount of attention recently amongst corporate finance researchers. The same was established to be non-monotonic in the context of a developed market. The non-monotonicity in the...

This paper analyzes the investments of the Italian mechanical firms with a model with simultaneous investments and financial structure. In our empirical specification the neoclassical and the new-keynesian «excess sensitivity» models are empirically contrasted as two sub-cases of a more...

Capital Structure plays an important role in regulating public utilities firms due to the interaction between investment and financial decisions and the level of regulated prices set by Regulators (Teisberg, 1993; Spiegel, 1994; Spiegel e Spulber, 1994). The main theoretical result shows that the...

The aim of this study was to elucidate the relationship between corporate governance, credit ratings and the capital structure of small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and large Greek listed firms for the period spanning from 2005 to 2010. Panel regression analysis demonstrates that corporate...

In this paper we introduce flexibility as an economic concept and apply it to the firm’ssecurity issuance decision and capital structure choice. Flexibility is the ability to makedecisions that one thinks are best even when others disagree. The firm’s management valuesflexibility because it...

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.

This study estimates some direct and indirect costs of bankruptcy in the Australian context from September 1978 to May 1983.The findings are: first, there was some degree of capital market inefficiency in the processing of infor Mation relevant to the bankrupt firms; second, bankruptcy costs, in...

This paper examines the impact of Australian firms’ warranty policies on capital structure. The sample consists of 378 firms and 1727 firm-years for Australian public firms for the period 2006–2010. The results suggest that warranty policies impact on Australian firms’...

This paper examines the financial stability implications arising from securitization markets, with one eye on the past and another on the future. The paper begins by deriving a number of “lessons learned†based on an examination of key industry developments in the years before the...