...Suteera Pongtepupathum; Kanyarat (Lek) Sanoran Purpose This study examines the association between reported intangible assets and corporate capital structure in an emerging-market context, with particular attention to how this association varies across tangibility environments. Design...

...Ahsan Ahmed; Rozaimah Zainudin; Shahrin Saaid Shaharuddin Purpose This paper investigates the impact of financial integration on the capital structure of the firms operating in mainland China, examining the firm-level and country-level integrating variables for 2,878 listed Chinese firms over...

...Fatma Ahmed; David G. McMillan Purpose This paper investigates the effect of political connections on the capital structure of banks before and after the financial crisis in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Design/methodology/approach This paper employs the natural experiment...

...Muhammad Munir Ahmad; Ahmed Imran Hunjra; Faridul Islam; Qasim Zureigat Purpose The authors examine the impact of asymmetric information on firm's financing decisions, the feedback effect of changes in capital structure on the level of asymmetric information, and the speed of adjustments...

...Marwa Fersi; Mouna Boujelbène Purpose The purpose of this paper was to investigate the impact of credit risk-taking on financial and social efficiency and examine the relationship between credit risk, capital structure and efficiency in the context of Islamic microfinance institutions (MFIs...

...Xiaolong Li; Lin Tian; Liang Han; Helen (Huifen) Cai Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use samples from Chinese-listed companies to investigate the effects of interest rate deregulation and earnings transparency on company’s capital structure in China over the period of 2003–2015...

...Dewi Ratih Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the impacts of equity market timing on corporate capital structure policies in Indonesia by apply Baker and Wurgler’s analytical approach to firms in Indonesia to see, first, if that approach applies to Indonesian firms...

...Chimwemwe Chipeta; Chera Deressa Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of firm- and country-specific factors on the dynamics of capital structure for a new data set of firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Design/methodology/approach Panel data estimation techniques are carried...

...Tarek I. Eldomiaty; Mohamed H. Azim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine firms' strategies to change long‐ and short‐term debt financing in Egypt. It aims to examine a list of capital structure determinants that include the basic assumptions of the three well‐known theories of capital...