This article analyzes the determinants of capital structure of Tunisian companies in the light of various financial theories. We test empirically with a panel data approach, the three main theoretical frameworks addressing the capital structure of company; the Trade-off Theory, the Pecking Order...

The principal aim of this paper is to test how firm characteristics affect Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) capital structure. We carry out an empirical analysis over a panel data of 6482 non?financial Spanish SMEs along the five-year period 1994?1998, modelling the leverage ratio as a function...