We explore the importance of new public firms and public equity finance for R&D and creative destruction in the U.S. high-tech sector. Between 1970 and 2004 over 1900 new public firms enter a small number of high-tech industries, substantially altering the focus of U.S. manufacturing and...

This paper provides a comprehensive study of deal characteristics and participants’ involvement in leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and their impact on target firms’ performance. Using a sample of 501 U.S. LBOs completed between 1986 and 2011, I find that better post-buyout operating performance are...

The empirical literature on the relationship between capital structure and firm cash flow volatility is inconclusive. We explore this relationship using several measures of a firm's cash flow volatility and econometric methods that account for the non-linear relationship of proportional...

Perhaps, the most familiar idea underlying debt maturity choice is the maturity-matching hypothesis wherein liabilities' maturities correlate with assets' maturities. However, the maturity-matching hypothesis does not provide a comprehensive explanation for many empirical patterns of firm...

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the determinants of leverage in Korea. The study is conducted using 2005-2015 sample period and data of 563 listed companies in the Korean securities market. It analyzes the relationship between leverage and profitability (return on equity),...

Objective - The objective of this study is to observe the effects of managerial ownership, institutional ownership, dividend policy, firm growth, business risk, liquidity, and profitability on debt policy.Methodology/Technique - Using the purposive sampling method, secondary data were retrieved...

Capital structure plays a significant role in the determination of the value of the firm. The literature is replete with studies that relate to mature capitalist economies in the western world. When the models are applied to less-structured countries of the Middle East, one would question...

Debt may help to manage type II corporate agency conflicts because it is easier for controlling shareholders to modify the leverage ratio than to modify their share of capital. A sample of 112 firms listed on the French stock market over the period 1998-2009 is empirically tested. It supports an...

Does the ability of suppliers of corporate debt capital to hedge risk through credit default swap (CDS) contracts impact firms' capital structures? We find that firms with traded CDS contracts on their debt are able to maintain higher leverage ratios and longer debt maturities. This is...