André Bender

TL;DR: In this paper, the determinants of the capital structure for a panel of Swiss companies listed in the Swiss stock exchange were analyzed for the period 1991-2000, and it was found that the size of companies and the importance of tangible assets are positively related to leverage, while growth and profitability are negatively associated with leverage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare various real estate valuation models and the manner in which they take into account environmental variables, and find that artificial neural network (ANN) models exhibit a similar general form of the price indices, but that the detailed price behaviours of different models feature notable differences depending on the input choice of environmental variables.

TL;DR: In this article, the determinants of the capital structure for a panel of 106 Swiss companies listed in the Swiss stock exchange were analyzed for the period 1991-2000, and it was found that the size of companies, the importance of tangible assets and business risk are positively related to leverage, while growth and profitability are negatively associated with leverage.

TL;DR: In this article, a sample of over 5000 European firms was used to study the driving factors of capital structure policies in Europe, and they showed how these policies cannot be reduced to a simple trade-off or pecking order model.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) methodology is applied to the data collected by means of a questionnaire which was sent to 850 owners of houses in Geneva, and pairwise comparisons are done with eight criteria.