The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the claim made by Stern Stewart & Company that economic value added is a better metric that traditional earning based measures in explaining market value. For better exposition, a sample of 325 Indian firms has been divided into two parts- 170...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Financing pattern if Indian MSMEs -- Chapter 3: Response of capital structure determinants in different macroeconomic states -- Chapter 4: Working-Capital and Capital Structure -- Chapter 5: Cash flow volatility and capital structure -- Chapter 6: Does...