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...

This paper studies the determinants of the capital structure of small and medium sized companies. In a second step, this analysis is extended to large companies. The research is based on two financial theories (i) pecking order theory (TPO) and (ii) management strategy theory (TEP), with...