This paper investigates the relationship between leverage and the financial performance of listed firm in Kenya. We use … leverage significantly, and negatively, affects the profitability of listed firms in Kenya. However, leverage has no effect on …

capital structure in Kenya. This was implemented by interacting a financial constraints dummy with the right-hand side …

empirical support. We conclude that bank equity is not socially expensive, and that high leverage at the levels allowed, for …

regulatory requirements. Our analytic characterization of the bank policy choices shows that imposing solely liquidity … requirements leads to lower bank losses in default at the cost of an increased likelihood of default. Combining liquidity … requirements with leverage requirements reduces drastically both the likelihood of default and the magnitude of bank losses in …

Is bank- versus market-based financing different in its attitudes towards Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG … bank monitoring and scrutiny. The Social and Governance components, in particular, matter. Furthermore, firms suffering … higher numbers of negative ESG reputation shocks are less likely to continue to rely on bank credit in response to lenders …

bank performance to this inconclusive de- bate. It uses the data of commercial conventional banks listed on various stock … Emirates. The study uses unbalanced panel data of 50 banks operating in these coun- tries during 2012 to 2017, having 299 bank … year observations. ROA and ROE are used as perfor- mance variables, with total debt ratio as explanatory variables. Bank …

Is bank- versus market-based financing different in its attitudes towards Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG … bank monitoring and scrutiny. The Social and Governance components, in particular, matter. Furthermore, firms suffering … higher numbers of negative ESG reputation shocks are less likely to continue to rely on bank credit in response to lenders …

because it reflects special liquidity benefits of bank debt. Even aside from neglecting the systemic damage to the economy …