This paper studies how a firm's pricing strategy affects its financial leverage. Retailers vary in pricing strategy, ranging from low markup (i.e., “discount”), no frills retailers to high markup retailers that offer extensive service. The choice of strategy affects the firm's risks and...

This paper surveys the literature on the linkages between asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes. It focuses on three major questions. First, what are the basic theoretical linkages between asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes? Second, what is the empirical evidence supporting these...

Emphasizing risk averse nature of fund suppliers in an uncertain environment, this paper establishes the possibility of a riba-free Pareto optimality in a primary financial market, explaining real life dominance of the mixed debt/equity system in terms of deviation from informational efficiency....

This research aimed to test whether there are differences among companies which have the growth potential and barren of in the case of policy of financing and also to test significance influence of unsystematic risk, size, profitability, and liquidity to non-financial companies financing...

The median U.S. non-regulated firm reports a 47 percent decline in leverage ratio between 1980 and 2010. We investigate whether the cost-benefit tradeoff to shareholders, captured by the valuation impact of an additional dollar of debt on owners' equity, is an explanation for the observed change...

This article is devoted to the exploration of the mechanism of making decision about the company's financing structure. It is shown that the interaction between various financial characteristics of company plays statistically significant role in the capital structure determination. Namely their...

We show how the prospect of disputes over firms' revenue reports promotes debt financing over equity. These findings are presented within a costly state verification model with a risk averse entrepreneur. The prospect of disputes encourages incentive contracts that limit penalties and avoid...

Do the effects of corporate governance on corporate capital structure choices change as a public firm ages? First, we address the direct effects of firm age and governance features on both its decisions to use debt and how much debt to employ. Our analysis reveals a number of novel results....

Market participants have argued that a significant unintended consequence of post-crisis regulatory leverage ratio requirements has been a reduction in the liquidity of fixed income markets. We assess this claim in the context of the gilt (UK government bond) and gilt repo markets. We find that...