Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to describe and analyse the relationship between the 2008–2009 global financial crisis and small and medium-sized enterprises' cost of debt capital. Design/methodology/approach: Statistical methods, including multiple OLS and dynamic panel data, were...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate determinants of financial distress among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) during the global financial crisis and post-crisis periods. Design/methodology/approach: Several statistical methods, including multiple binary...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine capital structure determinants of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) during and after the global financial crisis. Design/methodology/approach: Statistical methods, including ordinary least squares and the generalised method...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine organizational-level determinants of commercial bank profitability. Design/methodology/approach: Using bank-level longitudinal panel data for the 2005–2014 period, this study conducts univariate and multivariate statistical analyses, i.e....