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Capital structure: professional management guidance
Stretcher, Robert; Johnson, Steve - In: Managerial Finance 37 (2011) 8, pp. 788-804
management careers. Social implications – Proper managerial techniques and considerations for leverage and capital structure can …
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Effects of corporate governance on capital structure: empirical evidence from Pakistan
Ahmed Sheikh, Nadeem; Wang, Zongjun - In: Corporate Governance: The international journal of … 12 (2012) 5, pp. 629-641
Purpose – The aim of this empirical study is to investigate whether corporate governance attributes such as board size, outside directors, ownership concentration, managerial ownership, director remuneration, and CEO duality affect capital structure choices of Pakistani firms....
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Dynamic adjustment towards target capital structure: evidence from Indian companies
Mukherjee, Sulagna; Mahakud, Jitendra - In: Journal of Advances in Management Research 7 (2010) 2, pp. 250-266
the most important variables which determine the target capital structure across the book and market leverage and the … factors like size of the company, growth opportunity and the distance between the target and observed leverage determine the … speed of adjustment to target leverage for the Indian manufacturing companies. Research limitations/implications – The …
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Risk exposure and corporate financial policy on the Ghana Stock Exchange
Bokpin, Godfred A.; Aboagye, Anthony Q.Q.; Osei, Kofi A. - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 11 (2010) 3, pp. 323-332
variables; namely, financial leverage, debt ratio, or short‐term debt to equity. The paper also finds that corporate managers …
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Capital structure and firm characteristics: an empirical analysis from Egypt
Omran, Mohammad M.; Pointon, John - In: Review of Accounting and Finance 8 (2009) 4, pp. 454-474
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate differences in capital structures across industries in Egypt paying particular attention to: corporate characteristics, such as liquidity, asset structure, growth, and size; fiscal characteristics, namely, the application of differential...
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How firm characteristics affect capital structure: an empirical study
Eriotis, Nikolaos; Vasiliou, Dimitrios; … - In: Managerial Finance 33 (2007) 5, pp. 321-331
Purpose – The aim of this study is to isolate the firm characteristics that affect capital structure. Design/methodology/approach – The investigation has been performed using panel data procedure for a sample of 129 Greek companies listed on the Athens Stock Exchange during 1997‐2001. The...
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Debt‐equity decision‐making with and without growth
Hull, Robert M. - In: Managerial Finance 37 (2011) 8, pp. 765-787
leverage for an unleveraged nongrowth firm. A question and answer methodology is used within the exercise. The approach is … students when making debt‐equity and plowback‐payout choices. Research limitations/implications – All gain to leverage … the equations. Practical implications – Besides using the traditional Modigliani and Miller (MM)‐Miller gain to leverage …
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The capital structure of Chinese listed firms: is manufacturing industry special?
Tse, Chin-Bun; Rodgers, Timothy - In: Managerial Finance 40 (2014) 5, pp. 469-486
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether or not industry membership can explain the leverage of … special case. Design/methodology/approach – The paper undertakes a comparative study of leverage differences between … regression analysis that models the factors determining leverage on an industry-by-industry basis. Findings – The authors find …
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Small business finance in Sub‐Saharan Africa: the case of Ghana
Amo Yartey, Charles - In: Management Research Review 34 (2011) 2, pp. 172-185
Purpose – This paper aims to examine how unlisted companies in Ghana finance their growth and to what extent do they rely on internal finance relative to external sources of finance. Additionally, the paper seeks to investigate the determinants of the capital structure of unlisted companies in...
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Firm versus industry financing structures in Nigeria
Ebeh Ezeoha, Abel - In: African Journal of Economic and Management Studies 2 (2011) 1, pp. 42-55
/value – Though studies on industry herding and financial leverage are not new, the paper gives interesting insights into the nature …
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