Intellectual capital is by far the most important factor in enhancing organizational
performance. Companies require skilled workers who have the know-how, skills …

This study investigates the factors that promote a bank borrower to issue sukuk rather than
conventional debt security in Malaysia and Indonesia from 2000 to 2014. First, our empirical …

We study market timing and pecking order in a sample of debt and equity issues and share
repurchases of Canadian firms from 1998 to 2007. We find that only when firms are not …

This study investigates the factors that promoted and prevented issue of debt securities by
firms in emerging markets during 2000–2014. First, we find that borrowers in emerging …

We investigate the effects of family ownership on the choice between cash and stock
payment in M&A operations. On a sample of 269 M&A transactions performed by Italian …

The purpose of this study is to test how equity market timing affects capital structure from the
perspective of IPO (Initial Public Offering) event in ISE for the period between 1999-2008 …

The theoretical propositions related to firms' capital structure decisions, which are at present
drawing much of the researchers' attention in this field, are:(i) the Market Timing Theory …

Empirical studies on the impact of regulation on the financial policies of banks have
documented that unconstrained forward-looking banks with sufficient franchise value build …

Employing the data of 7,801 small businesses in the US, the paper aims to investigate how
relationship banking and banking market conditions affect firms' capital structure. The results …

This study used panel datasets from 143 Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed non-financial
firms and four variants of the partial adjustment model fitted with the random effects Tobit …