Purpose: This paper aims to analyse the capital structure determining factors of Latin American and US corporations after the crisis of 2008, as a means of comparing theoretical assumptions and empirical results in markets of different efficiency levels. Design/methodology/approach - The study...

One of the central debates in the empirical capital structure literature is the issue of capital structure stability. The purpose of this study is to examine the debate in the Nigerian context where it is largely an underexplored issue. This study employed the traditional leverage adjustment...

In this paper, we propose an integrated model of capital structure to study the partial adjustment process to the optimal long term debt ratio. In our analysis, we consider the characteristics of the institutional environment as a factor that influences such adjustment. We use a sample of quoted...