Globally, the unravelling of the corporate scandals leading to big multinational firms stumbling down to bankruptcy suits caused enormous loss of wealth to the investors. This study explores how the earnings management and capital structure can signal an early stage of the distressed financial...

This book comprises 19 papers published in the Special Issue entitled "Corporate Finance", focused on capital structure (Kedzior et al., 2020; Ntoung et al., 2020; Vintilă etal., 2019), dividend policy (Dragotă and Delcea, 2019; Pinto and Rastogi, 2019) and open-market share repurchase announcements (Ding...

Financial leverage, supply chain finance, and liquidity are three substantial features of overall firm performance. This study examines how financial leverage, supply chain finance, and liquidity affect a firm’s performance in Pakistan's cement, textile, sugar, and pharmaceutical sectors. The...

The study aims to investigate the nexus between financing decision, ownership type and financial performance of listed non-financial companies in Ghana. Data were selected from 22 listed non-financial companies on the Ghana Stock Exchange from the years 2010 to 2021. A non-parametric estimation...

"Intuition suggests that firms with higher cash holdings are safer and should have lower credit spreads. Yet empirically, the correlation between cash and spreads is robustly positive and higher for lower credit ratings. This puzzling finding can be explained by the precautionary motive for...