This article aims to analyze the phenomenon of financial conservatism in firms' capital structures and relate it to their employment variation for a sample of Spanish companies during the 2007 - 2010 period. Financial conservatism consists of a low-leverage/high cash no-short-term capital...

Este estudio tiene por objeto, por un lado, analizar el fenómeno del conservadurismo financiero o de deuda para una muestra de empresas españolas para el periodo 2007-2010 y relacionarlo con la variación de empleo de las mismas. Este conservadurismo se refiere a una política de endeudamiento...

Credit from suppliers is an important source of finance for firms. It can sustain firms' financial flexibility even in periods of downturn. In this study, using a large database of 90,763 Italian firms in the 2015-2021 period, we investigated how local financial development affects the trade...

With a severe debt overhang problem in Spain, either public or private, the analysis of the factors that influence companies' leverage in this country reveals essential, in particular for the high-indebted firms. This study benefits from the quantile regression approach advantages over the OLS...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the factors that motivate private firms to follow a conservative financial policy. Using a new definition of financial conservatism, we investigate a sample of 21,959 Italian private firms for the 1998–2006 period and look for the determinants of financial...