This paper investigates the effect of external financing on earnings management in Vietnam, a bank-dominated economy. Using a sample of 494 listed non-financial firms from 2009 to 2018, we find that external financing is positively related to earnings management, implying that firms have...

Over the past thirty years, a number of social entrepreneurs have managed to create fairly large social enterprises. Properly run and scaled, they can generate sufficient cash flow to support debt financing at manageable levels of risk and, depending on their business model and legal form, also...

So far, the capital structure of Indian small and medium scale enterprises has been typical. There have been constraints on the amount of total funds that can be raised including equity the owners can privately raise. Funding has come mainly from banks or owned funds. The long term debt has been...

We apply control rights theory to explain the structure and determinants of financial covenants in private equity backed leveraged buyouts. We analyze 130 German transactions from 2000 to 2008, covering about 40 percent of the LBO market during this period. We consider Germany to be a superior...

Estimating the speed of adjustment towards target leverage using the standard partial adjustment model assumes that all firms within the sample adjust at the same (average) pace. Dynamic capital structure theory predicts heterogeneity in adjustment speed due to firm-specific adjustment costs....

We use a proprietary dataset to explore (i) the financial covenant structure and (ii) the determinants of their restrictiveness in leveraged buyouts. With respect to (i) we find that the covenant structure is more standardized in sponsored than in non-sponsored loans: the former show less...

We demonstrate that the capital structures of small business is mainly driven by asset-backed concept, particularly by the most liquid part of them, i.e. the operating working capital. Return-to-risk analysis is very less relevant because of its misrepresentation in standard financial reporting...

This paper documents that the bond investments of insurance companies transmit shocks from insurance markets to the real economy. Liquidity windfalls from household insurance purchases increase insurers' demand for corporate bonds. Exploiting the fact that insurers persistently invest in a small...

We examine the factors that influence public firms' choice between project financing and corporate financing. Using a sample of 15,191 syndicated deals closed between 2000 and 2016, we find that economies of scale, agency costs of debt, and information asymmetry arguments affect the choice of...

In this paper, we examine the impact of credit rating changes on the financing decisions of overconfident CFOs. We find that CFO overconfidence significantly increases the sensitivity of net debt issuances to the rating changes, particularly when firms have no access to low-risk debt....