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Utilizing stock-market liberalization, we test whether managers exploit favorable market conditions to time their firms' IPOs, and whether or not the timing will have a persistent, negative impact on leverage. Using a sample of 235 Taiwanese IPOs over the 10-year period surrounding the first...
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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...
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This paper investigates how multinational firms choose the capital structure of their foreign affiliates in response to political risk. We focus on two choice variables, the leverage and the ownership structure of the foreign affiliate, and we distinguish different types of political risk, such...
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This study investigates the effects of political uncertainty (PU) on corporate debt maturity and leverage using a novel measure of firm-specific PU. We find that PU is negatively associated with debt maturity and leverage. Furthermore, the negative effects of PU on debt maturity and leverage are...
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This paper investigates how multinational firms choose their capital structure in response to political risk. We focus on two choice variables, the leverage and the ownership structure of the foreign affiliate, and we distinguish different types of political risk, like expropriation, corruption...
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This paper investigates how multinational firms choose the capital structure of their foreign affiliates in response to political risk. We focus on two choice variables, the leverage and the ownership structure of the foreign affiliate, and we distinguish different types of political risk, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811124
This paper investigates how multinational firms choose the capital structure of their foreign affiliates in response to political risk. We focus on two choice variables, the leverage and the ownership structure of the foreign affiliate, and we distinguish different types of political risk, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991068
We construct a comprehensive panel data of 96 publicly traded European utilities over the period 1994-2005 in order to study the relationship between the capital structure of regulated firms, regulated prices, and investments, and examine if and how this interaction is affected by ownership...
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The literature on capital structure dynamics assumes that companies trade-off the advantages of a leverage adjustment and its costs. In general, private companies are assumed to face relatively large adjustment costs, and should have lower financing flexibility. However, we argue that an...
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In this paper, I examine public and private firms' leverage choices using the Capital IQ database. I find that private firms' leverage is about 3.8 higher than that of public firms. I also find that asset tangibility has a much larger impact on the leverage decisions of private firms than it...
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