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's overinvestment. We posit that when external funds are easily available, as in expansionary monetary periods, debt loses its … disciplinary role of debt might become a false friend when money abounds. …
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That most corporate tax systems favor debt over equity finance is now widely recognized as, potentially, amplifying …
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Understanding the impact of the asymmetric tax treatment of debt and equity on the capital structures of financial … countries over nine years. On average, the sensitivity of banks? debt choices proves very similar to that of non-financial firms …
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This paper analysis capital structure determinants of Croatian enterprises based on a cross-sectional data for pre-recession 2007 and recession 2010 comprising about 10,000 firms. Determinants are selected with reference to the relevant capital structure theories and include asset tangibility,...
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. The average debt ratio fell significantly, the distance between optimal and observed debt ratios shrank, while the speed … effect on companies' debt ratio and the speed of their adjustment toward optimal leverage. The empirical analysis revealed … that Korean non-financial listed companies on average decreased their debt ratios over the entire study period, with …
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The rising stockpile of cash as a share of total assets at U.S. firms has intrigued economists since at least the paper of Bates, Kahle, and Stulz (2006), yet there has been relatively little work on where this cash has come from and how it is related to investment performance. We exploit...
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The present paper examines the capital structure adjustment dynamics of listed non-financial corporations in seven East Asian countries during 1994-2002. Compared to firms in the least affected countries, average leverages were much higher among firms in the worst affected countries while the...
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taking. In particular, linking the amount of insured debt to the ratio of fixed and performance based salary encourages first …
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The present study is centered primarily on determining whether the German banking system is to be characterized by procyclical behavior from 2000 to 2011 and to what extent specific sectors of the German banking system showed significant balance sheet operations to increase their leverage within...
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