Purpose – The existing literature on real estate investment trust (REIT) capital-structure decisions implicitly excludes either interest payment tax shield benefits or a trust's growth potential. The purpose of this paper is to test the long-term debt leverage decisions of listed property...

In explaining the dynamics of corporate Reserve Debt Capacity (RDC) at its utilization and creation of the high-risk and low-risk RDC by the high-value and low-value firms, the present paper seeks to put forward a new theory in literature. Utilizing the concept of suboptimality at firms' pecking...

This paper analyses some of the empirical implications of the pecking order theory in the Spanish market using a panel data analysis of 1,566 firms over 1994-2000. The results show that the pecking order theory holds for most subsamples analyzed, particularly for the small and medium-sized...