Purpose: The main objective of this study is to examine whether firms follow the financing hierarchy as suggested by the Pecking Order Theory (hereinafter POT). The External Funds Needed (hereinafter EFN) Model offers a financing hierarchy that can be used for examining the POT. As far as the...

Purpose The financing of growth of the firm is quite sensitive to fluctuations in Fund rates. This requires a treatment of Fund rates being subject to structural shifts. This paper examines the impact of threshold Federal Fund Rate (FFR), being a proxy for Federal Reserve policy, on different...

Purpose - This paper aims to examine the effect of both inflation rate and interest rate on stock prices using quarterly data on non-financial firms listed in DJIA30 and NASDAQ100 for the period 1999-2016. The stock duration model is used to measure the sensitivity in variations in inflation...

This paper examines the firm growth-size and growth-learning theories using sales revenue ratios and cost ratios. The results show that (I) low growth is positively associated with short-term turnovers which indicate that firms' focus on the short-term leads to reduced growth rates, (II)...

The main objective of this study is to examine whether firms follow the financing hierarchy as suggested by the Pecking Order Theory (POT). The External Funds Needed (EFN) model offers a financing hierarchy that can be used for examining the POT. As far as the EFN considers growth of sales as a...