According to Graham and Harvey (2001), an immense gap exists between capital structure theories and practice. By analyzing students' perception of capital structure theories and the differences between their opinion and that of the current CEO's and managers this paper argues that this can be...

According to Graham and Harvey (2001), an immense gap exists between capital structure theories and practice. By analyzing students' perception of capital structure theories and the differences between their opinion and that of the current CEO's and managers this paper argues that this can be...

This paper shows that asymmetric information about the timing of earnings can affect corporate capital structure. It sheds new light on the following issues: why profitable firms may be interested in issuing equity and why debt does not necessarily signal a firm's quality. These issues seem to...

This article presents a new capital structure model based on four factors well documented in literature: asymmetric information, taxes, bankruptcy costs and decision-makers' overconfidence. The model can simultaneously explain several facts about capital structure including those that remain...

This paper analyzes a financing problem for an innovative firm that is considering launching a web-based platform. Our model is the first one that analyzes an entrepreneur's choice between initial exchange offering (IEO) and initial coin offering (ICO). Compared to ICO, under IEO the firm is...

Crowdfunding has mostly been used to finance very unique projects. Recently, however, companies have begun using it to finance more traditional products where they compete against other sellers of similar products. Major crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter and Indiegogo, as well as Amazon have...

This paper offers a model of a firm that raises funds for financing an innovative business project and choses between ICO (initial coin offering) and equity financing. The model is based on information problems associated with both ICO and equity financing well documented in literature. The...