Serfling (2016) examines how the increase in firing costs impacts the capital structure decisions of firms and hypothesizes that higher firing costs of labor lead to a decline in a firm’s financial leverage use by directly increasing its distress costs and indirectly lifting its operating...

Empirical evidence overwhelmingly supports a negative relation between the strictness of labor protection laws and a firm’s financial leverage. Given the unique economic and financial environments in China, we examine if the same relationship applies to Chinese firms after the enactment of the...

Serfling (2016) examines how the increase in firing costs impacts the capital structure decisions of firms and hypothesizes that higher firing costs of labor lead to a decline in a firm’s financial leverage use by directly increasing its distress costs and indirectly lifting its operating...