The present study investigates the relationship between diversification strategy, capital structure and profitability in companies listed in the stock exchange through a combination of data panel and VAR methods. The present research was conducted for companies admitted to the Tehran Stock Exchange from 1387 to 1395 and 78 companies were selected as case study. Stationary and static tests were ...

Full, on-time, and with Quality disclosure of financial information can lead to the transparency of such information and decreases information asymmetry. Among the published information of firms, earnings are of priority importance attended by many users; therefore, the issue of the transparency of accounting earnings is of high importance. The aim of this study is investigating the accounting ...

The relationship between physical capital, human capital and the distribution of earnings is examined empirically using cross-sectional microdata within SMSAs. Comparative advantage in workers and a scale-of-resources effect among firms is predicted to lead to a relationship between capital and earnings. The level of earnings is found to be positively related to capital intensity and negatively...

We explain the puzzle of falling firm leverage during the period of decreasing aggregate volatility from 1970 – 2010 with a simultaneous increase in firm level volatility and varying degrees of firm access to public debt markets. By incorporating friction between public and private debt, a structural model where firms make financing policy decisions in presence of uncertainty can explain a sign...

Tangible assets, many of which can be easily collateralized, support debt. Accordingly, the amount of tangible assets is well-established as a principal driver of leverage. As investing is shifting more and more from tangible to intangible assets, it becomes crucial to understand to what extent intangible assets support debt. Analyzing this question empirically has been largely unfeasible due t...

To study the process of pricing in capital market and look for a new way for decision support in financial market, according to the mechanism of artificial neural network, Capital Market Structure Model is developed in this case due to the influence between bargainer and price of asset in market. During proof-test, result of chaos forecast under the capital market structure model shows that cha...

We develop a dynamic structural model to examine the e¤ects of di¤ering beliefs of the manager and outsider investors regarding the pro…tability of a …rm’s projects and managershareholder agency con‡icts on its capital structure. The manager receives dynamic incentives through explicit contracts with shareholders whose implementation through …nancial securities leads to a dynamic capital struct...

The 2007-2009 financial crisis and recession highlighted the role of counterparty risk in financial contracts, many once thought immune to such problems. However, counterparty risk can be significant in a wide variety of contracting situations and can impact capital structure decisions. Using commercial real estate leases as an example, this paper presents a new model that endogenizes the capit...

We take a corporate finance approach to the question of countries’ funding of investments via foreign-currency denominated debt or domesticcurrency claims. We ask what is the optimal capital structure of a nation? A key conceptual innovation we introduce is an analogy between a nation’s money-claims and corporate equity. What a nation’s money and a firm’s equity have in common is that they both...

capital structure puzzle is a challenging issue in corporate finance. different researchers attempt to identify ways to determine optimized capital structure which minimizes firm’s cost of capital and maximizes its value, by proposing variety of theories. in line with forming new theories and introducing determinant variables, the absence of comprehensive research which simultaneously tests exi...