This study analyses the influence of the institutional environment on firms´ capital structure in the European Union (EU). Unlike other research papers, we focus on private firms and include data sourced from all countries belonging to the EU during the period 2010-2018. We split the sample...

El objectivo principal de este trabajo es proponer un indice para el estudio de la calidad fisicoquimica del agua, en un contecto probablistico. Este indice se utiliza para evaluar la calidad del agua de uso piscola. La metodologia aqui propuesta se aplica a los datos observados en un amplico...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the speed of adjustment of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the target leverage. By applying a system GMM technique to Spanish panel data collected during the period 1995–2005, we estimate a partial adjustment model in which both target leverage...

We provide an empirical examination of the pecking order theory on capital structure in the field of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). We mainly investigate if the results are sensitive to different definitions commonly used for these types of companies. Our evidence offers strong support for...