My dissertation aims at understanding the financing and investment decisions of firms. It contains two chapters.Chapter One studies the currency composition of debt for firms in emerging economies. Using a dataset of traded Mexican firms, I document two stylized facts about firms in the...

This paper examines time-series patterns of external financing decisions and shows that publicly traded U.S, firms fund a much larger proportion of their financing deficit with external equity when the cost of equity capital is low. The historical values of the cost of equity capital have...

The costs and constraints to financing, and the factors that influence them, play critical roles in the determination of corporate capital structures. Chapter 1 estimates firm-specific marginal cost of debt functions for a large panel of companies between 1980 and 2007. The marginal cost curves...

Apart from an extensive survey of the literature on the economics of corporate bankruptcy law, this thesis contains three own contributions: First, a model is presented where a firm's manager acquires some private information about whether a firm should be liquidated or stay in business....

The availability of a unique data set of financially distressed firms enabled this study to apply the dynamic capital structure adjustment model to a study of capital structure. In addition, the factors driving capital structure adjustment of financially distressed and of healthy firms were...

This review article of corporate finance mentioned how the corporate finance is very important to bring the profits in Ethiopian Companies. It mentioned about the introduction, Importance of financial decision in Ethiopian corporate sectors. Techniques and strategies of corporate finance in...

This review article of corporate finance mentioned how the corporate finance is very important to bring the profits in Ethiopian Companies. It mentioned about the introduction, Importance of financial decision in Ethiopian corporate sectors. Techniques and strategies of corporate finance in...

We study the impact of time-varying macroeconomic conditions on optimal dynamic capital structure and the aggregate dynamics of firms in a cross-section. Our structural-equilibrium framework embeds a contingent-claim corporate financing model within a standard consumption-based asset- pricing...

I investigate whether U.S. bank holding companies choose early adoption of accounting standards to better access external financing. Both economic intuition and theories suggest that banks are motivated to take measures such as information disclosure to better access capital markets. Examining...

This research paper aims to analyze the impacts of external financing on market risk for the listed firms in the Viet nam construction material industry, esp. after the financial crisis 2007-2009. First, by using quantitative and analytical methods to estimate asset and equity beta of total 57...