Response of Capital Structure Determinants in Different Macroeconomic States

This chapter attempted to investigate how capital structure adjustment speed, the firm-specific and macroeconomic variables in capital structure determination behave across different forms of debt and macroeconomic states for 1681 Indian MSMEs across a pe

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Capital Structure Dynamics in Indian MSMEs

Nufazil Altaf · Farooq Ahmad Shah

Capital Structure Dynamics in Indian MSMEs

Nufazil Altaf School of Business Studies Central University of Kashmir Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Farooq Ahmad Shah School of Business Studies Central University of Kashmir Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir, India

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Preface

Capital structure is regarded as one of the most ticklish areas of corporate finance. As rightly put by Myers, capital structure is a multidimensional riddle that is simultaneously affected by numerous inherent factors like scale of operations, macroeconomic states and debt maturity structure. As this multidimensional riddle enters the empirical arena, academics and practitioners are found engaged in defending their favourite approach/es. The prominent researchers in the field include the Nobel laureates Franco Modigliani, Merton Miller and Joseph Stiglitz. Moreover, the persistent research on the theme of capital structure dynamics over the last five to sixdecades has led to the development of a robust theory on the subject followed by a strong practical support by the corporate practitioners. Though capital structure dynamics is gaining acceptance in the corporate world, yet the focus of researchers has generally been on its interplay in the large enterprises, thereby ignoring some funda