... Chin-Bun Tse can be contacted at: chinbuntse@aol.co.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Capital structure Manufacturing industry Corporate finances Financing Chinese listed companies Cultural factors It is not clear how relevant established western capital structure...

...Astrid K. Chludek Purpose In contrast to common literature that suggests that trade credit is an extremely expensive source of financing with annual interest rates exceeding 40 percent, this paper seeks to argue that the average interest rate of trade credit does not exceed the cost of alternative...

... into firms’ debt issue decisions and proposes a new model of capital structure that generates insights into firms’ financing decisions and disclosure decisions, as well as information production by outside investors. Yawen Jiao can be contacted at: jiaoy@rpi.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited...

...Tanweer Hasan; Nicholas Biekpe; Josephat M. Kiweu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight important factors that influence funding decisions from the perspective of commercial lenders, and suggest commercialization of microfinance as a source of alternative development finance. Design...

...M. Mansoor Khan; M. Ishaq Bhatti; Anjum Siddiqui Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on various modes of Islamic finance and examines their risk and other characteristics by conducting a selective literature review. Design/methodology/approach Due to the Islamic prohibition...

... of the Official Cash Rate in March 1999. A related finding is that the size of the term premium is correlated with the volatility of short‐term rates. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Pricing Money Financing New Zealand Australia Managerial Finance 36 Estimates of time-varying term premia...

..., offering too small a resource base, and too little access to asset protecting networks. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Accounting research Ownership Private sector Financing Organizational change China Managerial Finance 32 China Incorporated: Property Rights, Networks, and the Emergence...

... numerically how the SGR model can calculate any of the four variables, given the other three, and thus help with decision making. Managerial Finance 20 The Sustainable Growth Model in Banking: An Application to the National Bank of Greece by Dimitrios Vasiliou and John Karkazis, Department of Management...

...Zoe Frangouli Explains the links between R&D investment, product differentiation and monopoly power, referring to previous research; and argues that internal financing of R&D creates even more competitive advantage. Develops mathematical models and applies them to 1990‐1996 data for a panel...

...Ali Fatemi; Iraj J. Fooladi; Nargess K. Kayhani Points out that preference shares are much more heavily used in emerging economies than in advanced ones to finance new investment projects and develops a mathematical model to show the conditions under which companies are willing to issue them...

... by Shariah and investigates how far it accords with theory. Argues that equity financing (including non‐interest bearing government bonds) has helped to finance growth and insulated the stock market from speculative financing. Looks at statistics on the financial structures, assets and loans of Saudi banks...

...Sulaiman A. Al‐Sakran Reviews previous research on the factors affecting the proportions of debt and equity used to finance firms, describes the Saudi Arabian tax system (based on net worth) and stock market; and examines the capital structure 1993‐1997 of a sample of 35 publicly traded Saudi...

...Lawrence J. Abbott Summarizes previous research on the impact of the investment opportunity set (IOS) on firm financing, dividend and compensation policies, develops hypotheses on the effects of IOS changes on these three areas and tests them using 1980‐1989 data from a sample of US firms moving...

...-earnings (PE) ratio and dividend yield in determining and evaluating share price. The following null hypotheses are expected to be rejected: Managerial Finance 66 H1: There is no correlation between dividends and share prices. H2: There is no correlation between earnings and share prices. This study also...