Capital Structure Evaluation Based Company Sizes And Profitability

Does Diversification Affect Capital Structure and Profitability in Pakistan?

Diversification has become a common strategy of corporate risk management along with availing other potential benefits. The intent of this study is to identify and analyze the nature of relationship that exists between diversification and capital structure as well as profitability in Pakistan. For this purpose we use the 10 years’ (2000-2009) data of all the companies of chemical and food secto...

Benefits of Control, Capital Structure and Company Growth

This paper studies the influence of the private benefits of control on the capital structure and the growth of private companies. It is argued that companies in which existing owners would lose more control if they expanded, have smaller equity increases, are more highly levered and grow more slowly. The dataset covers 8,964 private UK companies with limited liability for up to 5 years. Potenti...

Private Benefits of Control, Capital Structure and Company Growth

This paper studies the influence of the private benefits of control on the capital structure and the growth of private companies. It is argued that companies in which existing owners would lose more control if they expanded, issue less new equity, use more debt and grow more slowly. The dataset covers 6834 private UK companies with limited liability for up to 5 years. Loss of control is measure...

Trends in Corporate Profitability and Capital Costs

The determinants of capital structure across firms’ sizes: The U.K evidence

This paper explores the leverage determinants across firms’ sizesbased on the two main theories behind the capital structure, the trade-offand the pecking order theories. A panel data is sued to find therelationship between capital structure and the variables that proxy forbenefits and costs of debt during 1990 to 2006. Our findings show thatboth principles help to explain the capital structure...