Corporate capital structure decisions are key determinants of firm performance. The agency theory suggests that debt financing is one of the mechanisms to mitigate agency problems and thus to improve firm performance. This paper provides important evidence on the performance effects of capital...

This study documents the fact that large dividend increases are followed by a significant increase in leverage, consistent with management increasing the dividend to use up excess debt capacity. However, the leverage increase is not captured by a standard partial adjustment model of leverage....

The study aims to identify the capital structure determinants of the listed Russian firms. The determinants are the factors that would affect firm financial leverage. The capital structures theories and their applications are considered in the article. The study is based on a sample of 48...

This paper examines the capital structure of listed industrial companies in Jordan. Using firm-level panel data, the main leverage ratios and the mean ratios of long term debt to total debt are calculated during the time period 1978-1998. Based on the statistical analysis, it is found that...

This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the non-financial corporate sector in emerging markets since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators prior to the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate...

This study focuses on investigating the existence of optimal capital structure for firms listed in KOSPI stock market by employing inter- and intra-industry analyses. To date, very little attention seems to be paid to this subject in modern finance, considering that a firm's value is increases...

This study investigated one of the issues in modern finance. It attempts to identify factors that affect a firm's capital structure under international or domestic context. However, this paper differed from past researches by using sample data in that the sample data from firms with headquarters...

This study investigates first, the determinants of the capital structure and second, the speed of adjustment of capital structure of small and medium capitalised firms in Europe before and during the sovereign debt crisis period. The sample includes 306 firms from 10 European countries...

This paper examines the leverage of firms of seven economies in emerging Asia – Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand – between 1991 and 2015. For the sample as a whole, neither the mean nor median, nor the upper tails of the leverage distribution...