In 1975 I co-authored a paper that documented the influence of industry on corporate capital structure with my colleague Dave Scott. By current standards our study was based on an exceedingly small sample and an unsophisticated research design. However, at the time the paper helped solidify the...

Using a data set of Indian Manufacturing companies (NSE 500), this paper examines the relationship between corporate governance characteristics and firm-specific factors in predicting leverage decisions of a firm. The paper specifies partial adjustment model and utilises System Generalised...