Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the most important factors that affect the
capital structure of commercial banks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Design/methodology …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is is to identify the main determinants of insurance
profitability on life and non-life segments to obtain which variables affect in each market of …

The legal authorities set the minimum capital level for the banks. Recent studies have shown
that variables used to explain capital structure of non financial firms, such as size, profit …

Purpose This paper aims to critically evaluate theoretical and empirical research into capital
structure practices in Islamic banks (IBs) from four perspectives, namely, theoretical aspect …

Over the past half century, there has been an increasing interest on identifying the factors
influencing debt financing within corporations. Based on available literature, both from …

We empirically analyze the determinants of private banking profitability in Ecuador for the
period 2002− 2017. We contribute to the growing literature in four ways. First, we propose a …

The main goal of every company is to maximize the welfare of the owners, commonly known
as the firm value (Widyaningsih et al., 2017). So, in making any decision, the firm should …

The financing decision of a firm is influenced by both internal (firm specific) and external
(macroeconomic) factors. However, most of the empirical investigations have focus on …

The study examined how debt structure is shaping the financial performance of listed
construction firms in Nigeria. Debt structure was measured with total debt to asset ratio, total …

This study is undertaken to discover the factors determining the capital structure decision of
non-financial Pakistani firms. The effect of firm's profitability, liquidity, size, tangibility and non …