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In a competitive product market, firms that buy their input have lower profit volatility than they would have if they … were to make it. This effect on profit volatility is an important consideration in the firms' capital structure choices and … cost advantage enjoyed by a supplier and passed on to its customers, in an industry equilibrium of a priori identical firms …
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This study estimates the effect of COVID-19 on listed small and medium enterprises' capital structures in Vietnam from 2010 to 2020 by a dynamic panel model with 825 observations. Conducting the generalized method of moments, the findings show that COVID-19 is a significant factor affecting...
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Previous studies that have tested the pecking order theory have been inconclusive. In this paper, we use unique survey results for private Brazilian firms in order to investigate firms' choice of capital structure. We document that ultimate owners of privately owned firms follow the pecking...
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We develop a dynamic model of investment, capital structure, leasing, and risk management based on firms' need to collateralize promises to pay with tangible assets. Both financing and risk management involve promises to pay subject to collateral constraints. Leasing is strongly collateralized...
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This paper investigates the determinants of liability maturity choice in transition markets. We formulate a model of firm value maximization that describes managers' choice of optimal debt structure. The theoretical predictions are tested using a unique panel of 4,300 Ukrainian firms during the...
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This paper shows that, with pre-set price and capital decisions of firms facing uncertainty and credit rationing, price, mark up and the expected degree of capacity utilization (resp. capital) increases (resp. decreases) with the firm internal net worth
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Existing theories of a firm's optimal capital structure seem to fail in explaining why many healthy and profitable firms rely heavily on equity financing, even though benefits associated with debt (like tax shields) appear to be high and the bankruptcy risk low. This holds in particular for...
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This study examines the relationship between firm leverage and total factor productivity for a large panel of manufacturing firms in India over the period: 2000-2015. Using the debt-ratio as a measure of firm leverage, the results indicate that there exists a negative relationship between...
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conception of systemic market added cost is considered (Systemic Market Value Added, SMVA). In the article it is shown that this … company. At positive value of balance sheet profit the company can have the latent losses of the capital which can … financing and factor of cost of growth of the capital is explained. Action of financial lever of systemic effect is shown …
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