This volume comprises studies by leading research scholars in the United States and Asia on Asia's debt capital markets …Comprises studies by scholars in the United States and Asia on Asia's debt capital markets. This book assesses the … economics, finance and law, in the context of market practices for promoting well-functioning securities markets …

. This divergence from the Ricardian equivalence thesis is traced to the omission of interest payments on public debt as part …

public finances under severe uncertainty (sovereign debt crisis, banking crisis). This is generating major changes in … different types of women's businesses. The variables of the study are some financial indicators: credit ratio, debt ratio …

borrowing is positively and significantly related to capital flight, suggesting that to a large extent capital flight is debt … political environment and governance. We discuss the implications of the results for debt relief and for policies aimed at …

market conditions dictate. A firm simultaneously selects the portion of equity and debt and its vertical setting. Debt is … in certain circumstances. Debt leads to the same level of flexibility acquired by an unlevered firm. However, investment … to set up a flexible technology occurs earlier. An alternative to debt is the involvement of venture capital for the …

-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …