We conduct a systematic review of the international research on the determinants and
consequences of debt maturity structure in the accounting, finance, and corporate …

Monitoring by long-term investors should reduce agency conflicts in firms' labor investment
choices. Consistent with this argument, we find that abnormal net hiring, measured as the …

Does leverage or product-market competition increase or decrease financial distress risk?
The existing literature provides conflicting and largely a-theoretical answers. Drawing on …

Corporate financing conditions in the external capital market are significantly affected by
information asymmetry, while internal financing is not. Given that earnings information …

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between fundamental factors,
asymmetric information, and firm value during the 2020 pandemic by taking samples of 457 …

The paper examines the relationship between debt financing and firm efficiency and the
moderating role of liquidity holding. We focus on countries that have strong manufacturing …

Using data from Chinese A-share listed companies from 2007 to 2022, we investigate the
impact of financialization on the long-term use of short-term debt (LUSD). The results …

Purpose This study aims to investigate two important research questions. First, this research
examines the impact of real earnings management on investment inefficiency of the non …

This article primarily and specifically focuses on 412 sample green firms from the green
industries in China and contributes by investigating the leverage-investment associations …

Prior literature has examined the effectiveness of the busy board by evaluating two
competing hypotheses: quality point of view and busyness point of view. In response to …