We examine the role of firm-level political risk in the capital structure dynamics for the U.S. listed firms from 2002 to 2017. We find that firm-level political risk facilitates firms' speed of adjustment towards its target leverage, and such a positive effect holds for categorical political...

We examine the association between customer concentration and capital structure adjustment speed using a sample of listed firms in the U.S from 1977 to 2020. We find that the customer-concentrated firms have a lower speed of leverage adjustment. The decomposition of customer types identifies...

Using a large sample of A-share firms listed in China from 2013 to 2019, we show a positive relation between supplier concentration and firms' leverage adjustment speed. One possible mechanism of this positive relation is the monitoring role imposed by suppliers, which could mitigate agency...

Using a large sample of firms across 35 countries from 2001 to 2021, we show a significantly positive association between a firm's climate risk exposure and speed of leverage adjustment. A plausible explanation is that climate risk exposure mitigates agency conflicts and improves information...