, it seems that some countries can compensate better than others and thereby achieve higher equity in the educational …

debt maturity ratios. Our evidence indicate that firms in countries that are viewed as more corrupt tend to use less equity … financial claimants tend to have capital structures with more equity, and relatively more long-term debt. In addition, the …

external equity fueling a finance-driven boom in corporate R&D. This paper examines whether R&D spending in Europe in a similar … way was sensitive to fluctuations in the supply of internal and external equity during the late 1990s and early 2000s. I … conjecture that U.K. and Continental Europe, due to their different financial systems, differ in terms of equity supply. I …