This study systematically reviews the dividend policy literature, combining quantitative and
qualitative techniques. We screened a sample of 270 articles retrieved from the Scopus …

This paper critically surveys the key literature on corporate financing policy, capital structure
and firm ownership in order to identify the leading theoretical and empirical issues in this …

US manufacturing firms incorporated in states with stronger payout restrictions use less debt,
while antitakeover statutes do not significantly reduce long-run leverage. Correcting for the …

This paper investigates the determinants of capital structure in the context of three GCC
countries and the impact of their stock markets' development on the financing choices of …

This paper thoroughly integrates speculative bubbles to corporate finance literature by
focusing on dividend policy issues. More specifically, we examine the importance of …

Purpose–This paper aims to investigate the relationship between ownership structure and
performance for a comprehensive sample of Chinese listed firms for the years 2000‐2004. In …

We demonstrate that, by exploiting more fully the distribution of leverage, conditional
quantile regression methods yield new insights into the choice of leverage ratio. For UK …

Understanding the behavior of private capital holders in green investment is a key to the
success of green finance policies such as green credit policies. In current literature, there …

This study uses panel regression tests to examine the impact of the economic performance
on the financial one. The retained measures for the economic performance and the financial …

We examine whether state laws impact the use of debt covenants by using a sample of US
public bond issues from 1987 to 2004. We consider variation in state laws with respect to the …