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Trade-off-theory vs. pecking order theory and the determinants of corporate leverage : evidence from a panel data analysis upon French SMEs (2002 - 2010)

Adair, Philippe; Adaskou, Mohamed - In: Cogent economics & finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-11

We test the assumptions of trade-off theory (TOT) and pecking order theory (POT) regarding corporate leverage. The dependent variable being the debt ratio, we apply a linear model upon a balanced panel data-set of 2,370 French SMEs over the period 2002 - 2010. In accordance to TOT, trade credit...

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On the Capital Structure of Foreign Subsidiaries: Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Model

Miniaci, Raffaele; Panteghini, Paolo - 2021

This paper studies how variations in tax rates and profitability affect the (unconditional) quantiles of the distribution of the leverage of European foreign owned subsidiaries in the presence of unobserved company characteristics, possibly correlated with their observable dimensions. To achieve...

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Financing obstacles and growth : an analysis for euro area non-financial corporations

Coluzzi, Chiara; Ferrando, Annalisa; … - 2009

This paper investigates whether financial obstacles, and, more generally, financial pressure faced by firms, significantly affect firm growth. For this purpose, we use an unbalanced panel of about 1,000,000 observations for around 155,000 non-financial corporations in five euro area countries....

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Regional Financial Development and Financing Constraints in R&D Investments : A Panel Study of Chinese High-Tech Firms

Li, Guo - 2014

We apply the Q-Theory investment model to a panel of high-tech firms listed on the Chinese stock market during 2008 and 2011, to study the effect of financial development in reducing financing constraints of firm's R&D growth. Based on the sizable discrepancies of stock market and financial...

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Estimating the Borrowing Behavior of French and German Firms An Econometric Analysis

Kremp, Elizabeth; Stöß, Elmar - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 221 (2001) 5-6, pp. 620-647

This paper investigates the borrowing behavior of 2,900 French and 1,300 German firms over the 1987-95 period. Both samples based on data sets of the Banque de France and the Deutsche Bundesbank not only include large but also small and medium-sized enterprises. Applying GMM techniques, we...

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Forecasting Euro area real GDP: optimal pooling of information

Hülsewig, Oliver; Mayr, Johannes; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2008

This paper proposes a new method of forecasting euro area quarterly real GDP that uses area-wide indicators, which are derived by optimally pooling the information contained in national indicator series. Following the ideas of predictive modeling, we construct the area-wide indicators by...

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Aggregation in large dynamic panels

Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Chudik, Alexander - 2011

This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … which observed inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

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Aggregation in large dynamic panels

Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Chudik, Alexander - 2011

This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … which 'observed' inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …

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Forecasting aggregates with disaggregate variables : does boosting help to select the most informative predictors? ; conference paper

Zeng, Jing - 2014

Including disaggregate variables or using information extracted from the disaggregate variables into a forecasting model for an eco- nomic aggregate may improve the forecasting accuracy. In this paper we suggest to use boosting as a method to select the disaggregate variables which are most...

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Ein nutzungskostenbasierter Ansatz zur Messung des Faktors Kapital in aggregierten Produktionsfunktionen

Knetsch, Thomas A. - 2012

Es wird eine Methode zur Messung des Produktionsfaktors Kapital vorgeschlagen, in der Vermögensarten nach ihrem Nutzungswert im Produktionsprozess gewichtet werden. Dazu werden Nutzungskosten für die einzelnen Anlageklassen mit Hilfe von Daten der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnungen sowie...

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