Capital structure theories seek to explain why businesses choose different mixes of debt and equity to finance their operations. Banking firms represent a special case because of certain unique ...
The day-to-day decisions a small business owner makes are typically operational -- how much to charge, for example, or how to arrange a store or how many employees to schedule. But businesses also ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Maintaining the right mix of debt and equity to finance the ...
Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...
Capital is money companies raise for long-term business investments and expenses. Long-term financing and investor equity are the two primary sources of capital. The optimum balance is referred to as ...
Small Business Economics, Vol. 47, No. 2, Special Issue: Small Business, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (August 2016), pp. 535-550 (16 pages) Prior work examining the antecedents of capital ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The principal aim of this paper is to test how firm characteristics affect Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) capital structure. We carry out ...
Capital structure is a term that describes the proportion of a company’s capital, or operating money, that is obtained through debt versus the proportion obtained through equity. Debt includes loans ...