We test whether a country's level of financial development or institutional quality (or both) have a first order effect on corporate debt maturity decisions on a sample of 359 non-financial firms from five South American countries over a 12 year period. We find that there is a substantial...

This paper investigates the determinants of capital structure for a sample of 13,070 small medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and 67,449 firm-year observations from Eastern European countries over the period 1994-2004. The use of a sample of SMEs in our analysis rather than large listed firms...

This study investigates whether the Consumption-based Capital Asset Pricing Model (CCAPM) is consistent with the data from four Latin-American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. Empirical results showed that there is a statistical significant relationship between mean excess returns...