Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how conventional and Islamic
commercial banks in Pakistan choose their capital structure and what are the most …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find out firm, industry, and country level
determinants of capital structure of Pakistani listed non-financial firms. Design/methodology …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explain the adjustment rate made to target capital
structures by listed non-financial firms in Pakistan during the courses of their life cycles and …

Grounding concepts of the two competing theories of capital structure (trade-off theory,
pecking order theory) are quite opposite to each other. Trade-off theory claims that there is …

Background This study tries to investigate how firms adjust their leverage policy across the
firm's life cycle. For this purpose the study uses an extensive set of data of 867 A listed …

This research is motivated by the gap phenomenon about capital structure and the
inconsistency of previous research results. The purpose of this research is to determine the …

The purpose of the study is to explain adjustment rate towards target capital structure of
Pakistani nonfinancial listed firms and to investigate the impact of financial liberalization (FL) …

Sažetak This article investigates the impact of political association and managerial power
heterogeneity on corporate risk-taking using data of listed companies in China from 2006 to …

This paper investigates the effect of firm and country factors on firms' leverage within the
context of the Pecking Order and Trade Off theories. We use the fixed effects model over 15 …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relevance of credit supply for
corporate capital structure decisions of manufacturing firms in Pakistan …