The paper offers an alternative approach to analyzing stock market time series data. The purpose is to develop descriptive, more intuitive, and closer to reality analogs of the behavior of US stock market prices, as indexed by the S&P500 stock price index covering the period October 2003 to...

The authors explore the short-term and long-term debt capital structure of business firms in seven Southeast and East Asian economies for the time period 1986-1996. These are major firms representing virtually all business sectors. They all discuss some theoretical considerations related to...

The article examines the financial capital structure of major financial companies in Thailand over the period 1993-1998. Small firms appear more likely to survive, perhaps because they have relatively more to lose financially and are less connected politically, and thus they are more cautions...