This study examines the role of earnings management in the relationship between firm performance and capital structure, dividing earnings management into discretionary and nondiscretionary accruals to test established theories on the capital structure. Using data on 802 companies in the member...

In this study, we examine whether tax avoidance affects firm-level external financing choices. We hypothesize that firms marginally choose equity over debt because tax avoidance generates incremental cash flows but is likely risky. Consequently, we predict that tax avoidance induces a relative...

We examine whether the public availability of product market incumbents' financial disclosures leads to greater capital structure mimicking of incumbents by entrants. Exploiting a change in disclosure enforcement for German private firms in the mid-2000s, we find entrant-incumbent mimicking...

Cash flow adequacy is one of the critical factors influencing corporate credit decisions. Since working capital deals with short-term cash flows, we explore the interaction between working capital and corporate credit ratings. By employing working capital and firm's characteristics as...

Conditional conservatism has caused a controversy in recent literature in regards to whether it is rather driven by reporting demands originating from debt or equity markets. Extending the work of Ball/Shivakumar (2005), who found public companies to report conditionally more conservative than...

Objective - This study aims to determine and analyze the effect of financial distress, leverage, free cash flow on earnings management.Methodology/Technique - The object of this research is all companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange with an observation period of 2019. The sample...

Our study examines firms’ motivation to issue hybrid bonds. Hybrid bonds have been issued in more than 15 different countries around the world and have been the most relevant class of hybrid securities in these countries since 2005. A hybrid bond offers several structuring opportunities....

We provide updates to and perspectives on the enduring topic of debt and taxes. The recent decade brought us new empirical strategies, accounting rules, and tax laws. We discuss how these and other developments change our understanding of leverage and taxes. Overall, tax incentives still do not...

In this article, we have used a continuous EBIT-based model to study deferred taxation under default risk. Quite surprisingly, default risk has been disregarded in research on deferred taxation. In order to underline its importance, we first calculated the probability of default, over a given...

We examine the role of female directors on firm cost of equity in the context of US-listed firms, and further explore the mediating impact of debt financing policy on such association. Using a dataset of 4619 non-financial firm-year observations covering the period of 2008-2019, we find that...