The recent spate of global crises, including Covid-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war and the Sri Lankan crisis, have hindered the economic growth of almost all nations. The prevailing economic downturn has forced many organizations to assess their financial future and the possibility of financial...

Despite the diverse and developed nature of twentieth century U.S. and Canadian financial markets, the history of both economies is replete with claims of inefficiency and inadequacy among financial intermediaries, particularly the banking sectors. In Canada it has been argued that banks were...

Set in India in 2009, the case is about Tata Steel Ltd (TSL), a global top ten steel producer. TSL's launch of a convertible bond offering in exchange for its convertible alternative reference securities issued in 2007 was in response to shifts in environmental factors. An analysis of the offer...

Working capital management is a very significant decision aspect of every business entity as it facilitates smooth functioning, revenue generation, and efficient asset utilization. In this context, the current study examined the structure of current assets, working capital policy comprising of...

I study the effects of price transparency by leveraging the introduction of steel futures markets in a difference-in-differences setting. In line with recent theory, producer profit margins, customer material costs, and input cost dispersion within customer industries decrease. Further, the...

The paper presents an analysis of patterns of capital structure of Indian private corporate sector. The patterns in Indian private corporate sector has been analysed by taking two industries from BSE 500 listed companies from twenty six industries for the period of 1999-2000 to 2012-13. The...

Shortly after the acquisition of Corus in 2007, Tata Steel Ltd entered the international markets with a convertible bond offering (CARS) that had some distinct features. The offering of USD 875 Million was among the first of its kind from India. The successful issuance reflected investor...

A popular view of limited liability in financial contracting is that it is the result of societal preferences against escessive penalties. The view of most financial economists is instead that limited liability emerged as an optimal institution when, in the absence of a clear limit on economic...

Predicting default probabilities is important for firms and banks to operate successfully and to estimate their specific risks. There are many reasons to use nonlinear techniques for predicting bankruptcy from financial ratios. Here we propose the so called Support Vector Machine (SVM) to...