Serfling (2016) examines how the increase in firing costs impacts the capital structure decisions of firms and hypothesizes that higher firing costs of labor lead to a decline in a firm’s financial leverage use by directly increasing its distress costs and indirectly lifting its operating...

As a firm deviates from its target leverage, marginal bankruptcy costs change at a faster speed than marginal tax shield. This renders the speed of adjustment (SOA) of capital structure an increasing function of the starting deviation from the target. Adopting a bootstrapping-based estimation,...

In this paper, we obtain a statistic that is useful for the analysis of the integration order of a variable which exhibits two changes in its mean. Our work begins by showing that the most commonly used unit root tests behave asymptotically in a correct manner for double changing mean variables....