This study examines the relationship between how firms borrow from banks and various corporate financial characteristics in an emerging economy. Using Taiwanese listed firms over the 1990-2002 period, we find, on the one hand, that older firms tend to maintain a close relationship with a single...

Using an effective sample of 3,453 observations selected from the Taiwanese stock exchange, this study documents and attempts to reconcile divergent outcomes from the extant literature on debt structure (public, bank, and non-bank private debt). Sampled firms from this emerging market generally...

While existing literature reports a positive market reaction to parent companies conducting carve-outs, we find that the response to carve-outs that are ultimately reacquired is negative or insignificant. Reacquired units perform considerably worse than those that are not reacquired. Thus,...

We examine private equity with warrant (unit) placements and compare them with private equity placements. Firms making unit placements are smaller, younger, riskier, and characterized by higher information asymmetry than equity-placing firms. Furthermore, unit-placing firms experience good...

Academic research findings on the determinants of executive compensation are mixed. Some researchers attribute this to the inclusion of stock-based compensation in the more recent studies. We study the determinants of stock-based compensation schemes in the REIT industry for the period...