Purpose: This study aims to examine the impact of political stability and political rights on firm-level earnings (both accrual-based and real) management. Design/methodology/approach: The authors develop models that link political stability, political rights, and the interplay between the two...

This study aims to investigate how firm, industry, macroeconomic and institutional factors influence a firm's debt maturity structure decisions across nine African countries. We consider a sample of 986 non-financial firms over a period of 10 years (1999-2008). We specify panel data models that...

The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the role of firm- industry-, institutional-, and macroeconomic-factors on a firm's capital structure decision in the context of nine African countries. To this end, we consider a sample of 986 non-financial firms over a period of 10 years...

This study examines antecedents of capital structure of firms in Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE). The difficulties in measuring attributes of interest are addressed in two fronts: conceptual and methodological. A broader conceptual framework is developed by introducing several new proxies...