stagnant financial profits, falling mortgage debt and rising public debt. The reliance of households on the formal financial … state debt and to financial regulation. …

stagnant financial profits, falling mortgage debt and rising public debt. The reliance of households on the formal financial … state debt and to financial regulation. …

study. The study used Return on Asset (ROA) and Return on Equity (ROE) as performance proxies. In addition, debt equity … ratio (DER) and debt asset ratio (DAR) were used as capital structure proxies. The relationship between the performance and … significant relationship in almost all firms between return on equity and debt to equity. This justifies that a highly geared firm …

It is widely believed that seriously excess debt problems form a major cause of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. This … paper investigates empirically the role of the debt problems with respect to both the won/$US rate fluctuations and the won … the predictor of a likely crash in the won rate in late 1997. Excess debt is hence found to only constitute one of the …

and debt in funding such assets. In contrast, the balance sheet management of financial intermediaries reveals that it is …

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the debt modification system (DMS) in Korea. We find that DMS does have … a positive effect in increasing the credit scores and annual income of DMS users. We also find that a debt management …-interest unsecured loans from banks. Therefore, DMS in Kores is still insufficient to support the return of debt-ridden consumers to …