Using administrative data on mortgages issued in Italy between 2018 and 2019, this paper estimates loan demand elasticities to maturity and interest rate. We find that households are responsive to both contract terms: a 1% decrease in interest rate increases the average loan size by 0.22%...

Leveraging data is becoming increasingly important for businesses. However, this transformation can be complex, as it requires a vast array of social and technical capabilities. To generate consensus in this domain, this study examines data & analytics maturity models by analyzing their...

Leveraging data is becoming increasingly important for businesses. However, this transformation can be complex, as it requires a vast array of social and technical capabilities. To generate consensus in this domain, this study examines data & analytics maturity models by analyzing their...

Purpose This paper studies the determinants of the debt maturity of Mexican-listed companies by analysing the effects on the extensive (issuing or liquidating debt) and the intensive (debt maturity renegotiation) margins. Design/methodology/approach This study, using a Tobit model for panel data...

The choice between short- and long-term debt impacts a firm's financial flexibility and its capacity for sustainable investment. This study examines how Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and main bank relationships shape debt maturity structures, focusing on Japanese firms listed on the Tokyo...

Past research shows that firms with constrained access to debt are more likely to withdraw from exporting. We argue that a firm's debt maturity structure (i.e., the short-term/long-term debt mix) also matters because short-term debt entails liquidity risk and long-term debt entails higher costs....

Purpose - This paper takes the Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect as a quasi-natural experiment and investigates the impact of capital market liberalization on the corporate debt maturity structure. It also aims to provide some policy implications for corporate debt financing and further...

Purpose Insufficient productivity development in the global and Finnish infrastructure sectors indicates that there are challenges in genuinely achieving the goals of resource efficiency and digitalization. This study adapts the approach of capability maturity model integration (CMMI) for...

Shorter development cycles, increasing complexity due to the interaction of hardware and software and the simultaneous pressure to innovate and reduce costs lead to products being launched early that have not yet been sufficiently validated and tested. The prototyping phase is crucial to ensure...

This paper studies the determinants of net interest margin and of the exposure to the interest rate risk of a sample of 125 local Italian banks during the period 2006-2018. Relative to prior literature, to take advantage of the unprecedented interest rate environment determined by European...

This study analyzes bank loan maturity and corporate investment linkage by using novel firm-level data covering the universe of all incorporated firms in Türkiye over the last decade. The results of the panel regression model with multi-dimensional fixed effects reveal that loan maturity has a...

This paper documents the different debt maturity choices of firms by allowing debt heterogeneity. We use a sample of US companies' capital structure and employ dynamic panel regressions and Instrumental Variable approach. When taking the maturity of each type of debt into account, the researcher...

In addition to the significant increase in the public debt ratio over the last decades, another major change has been the substantial increase in the maturity of sovereign borrowing. This study is the first to investigate the impact of the term structure of public debt on fiscal sustainability....

Green financial policies play an important role in acceleration of China's green transformation. Existing associated studies mainly focus on the qualitative analysis and descriptive analysis. However, it still lacks empirical studies. To explore the relationship between green finance policies...

The aim of this study is to analyse and assess the yields and liquidity of sovereign green bonds in selected countries and to compare the yields between sovereign green bonds and conventional bonds. Sovereign green bonds are issued by governments to finance environmental and social projects and...