La financiación de la innovación se ha caracterizado por ser un campo fragmentado donde coexisten múltiples teorías, cada una enfocada en uno o en unos pocos aspectos de la financiación a la vez. El presente artículo busca identificar las variables financieras que más influyen y su efecto...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the non-linear relationship between working capital management (WCM) and firm profitability (FP). As well as checking whether there is a financial leverage threshold in the decision on working capital, thereby assessing the change in the impact of...

Das Handwerk ist mit seinen vielen kleinen und mittelgroßen Betrieben ein Kernstück der regionalen Wirtschaft; die Finanzierung der Handwerksbetriebe aufgrund von unternehmens- und branchenspezifischen Besonderheiten jedoch oft schwierig. Eine aktuelle Untersuchung der Niederlassung Dresden...

Empirical evidence suggests that capital structure varies across firms facing different levels of information asymmetry, however, this evidence contradict the prediction of pecking order hypothesis. Although debt capacity constraints offer some explanation for this discrepancy, it fails to...

In this paper we analyze the evolution of firm financial efficiency in the Czech Republic. Using a large panel of more than 400,000 Czech firm/years we study whether firms fully utilize their resources, how firm financial efficiency evolves over time, and how firm financial efficiency is...

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less...

Foreign direct investment has been one of the main drivers of economic developments over the past few years in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Within the ongoing globalization and international division of labor, a large number of foreign companies have established production units in CEE...

Estimating the speed of adjustment towards target leverage using the standard partial adjustment model assumes that all firms within the sample adjust at the same (average) pace. Dynamic capital structure theory predicts heterogeneity in adjustment speed due to firm-specific adjustment costs....