Purpose – Financial sector reform measures, which were initiated in 1991, have provided some degree of maturity and integration of different segments of India's financial markets. The purpose of this paper is to articulate the impact of financial sector reform measures on integration of...

We investigate the role of adjustment costs and other firm-specific variables like tangibility, growth opportunity, size of the company, profitability, volatility, nondebt tax shields and uniqueness of the company in the determination of capital structure in the case of 793 Indian manufacturing...

The literature is unsettled on the simultaneous existence of Competition-Stability and Competition-Fragility phenomena in the banking system. Our study has extended the debate where we have incorporated accounting-based information along with 2-SLS system equation modeling to further explore...