The determinants of capital structure: Evidence from public listed companies in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand

Table 2. Descriptive statistics of leverage for Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand

Table 3. The fixed effect regression result for the determinants of capital structure for Malaysia

Table 4. The fixed effect regression result for the determinants of capital structure for Singapore

Table 5. The fixed effect regression result for the determinant of capital structure for Thailand

Table 6. The summary of the regression results for the determinants of capital structure for Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand

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