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Corporate debt and crisis severity in Europe
Niemczak, Kinga - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 9 (2013) 1, pp. 35-43
to the 2008 crisis and to determine whether the ex-ante differences in corporate financial structure had an impact on the … severity of the 2008 financial crisis in European countries. The analysis confirms a negative relationship between the … corporate debt ratio prior to the crisis and crisis-induced contractions in corporate investment and GDP. The results indicate a …
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Capital structure, corporate taxation and firm age
Pfaffermayr, Michael; Stöckl, Matthias; Winner, Hannes - 2009
This paper analyzes the relationship between corporate taxation, firm age and debt. We adapt a standard model of capital structure choice under corporate taxation, focusing on the financing and investment decisions a firm is typically faced with. Our model suggests that the debt ratio is...
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Dynamic Optimal Capital Structure and Technological Change
Lööf, Hans - 2003
This paper incorporates the cost of adjustment between observed and optimal leverage in explaining the variation in firm?s equity or bank-debt financing investments. Using a dynamic adjustment approach identifies the determinants to capital structure between different financial systems. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298124
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Capital structure and the firm under uncertainty
Broll, Udo; Wong, Kit Pong - 2003
This paper examines the interplay between the real and financial decisions of the competitive firm `a la Sandmo. Besides output price uncertainty, the firm faces additional sources of risk which are aggregated into an additive background risk. We show that the firm always chooses its optimal...
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The firm under uncertainty: capital structure and background risk
Broll, Udo; Wong, Keith K.P. - 2010
This paper examines the interplay between the real and financial decisions of the competitive firm under output price uncertainty. The firm faces additional sources of uncertainty that are aggregated into a background risk. We show that the firm always chooses its optimal debt-equity ratio to...
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Bank Market Structure and Firm Capital Structure
Baert, Lieven; Vennet, Rudi Vander - 2008
We explore the impact of concentration in the banking markets on the capital structure of publicly quoted non-financial firms in the EU15 over the period 1997- 2005, an era marked by intensive merger activity in the banking sector. Our main finding is a negative and significant relationship...
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Bank Ownership, Firm Value and Firm Capital Structure in Europe
Baert, Lieven; Vennet, Rudi Vander - 2009
We investigate whether or not banks play a positive role in the ownership structure of European listed firms. We distinguish between banks and other institutional investors as shareholders and examine empirically the relationship between financial institution ownership and the performance of the...
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Capital structure and financial flexibility: Expectations of future shocks
Lambrinoudakis, Costas; Neumann, Michael; Skiadopoulos, … - 2014
We test one of the main predictions of the financial flexibility paradigm that expectations about future firm-specific shocks affect the firm's leverage. We extract the expectations of small and large future shocks from the market prices of equity options. We find that expectations for future...
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What Determines the Speed of Adjustment to the Target Capital Structure?
Drobetz, Wolfgang; Wanzenried, Gabrielle - 2004
We use a dynamic adjustment model and panel methodology to investigate the determinants of a time- varying optimal capital structure. Because firms may temporarily deviate from their optimal capital structure in the presence of adjustment costs, we also endogenize the adjustment process. In...
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Financing asset growth
Brennan, Michael J.; Kraft, Holger - 2013
In this paper we provide new evidence that corporate financing decisions are associated with managerial incentives to report high equity earnings. Managers rely most heavily on debt to finance their asset growth when their future earnings prospects are poor, when they are under pressure due to...
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