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Author : Fabio Schiantarelli
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Maturity Structure of Debt written by Fabio Schiantarelli and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fabio Schiantarelli
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Download or read book The Maturity Structure of Debt: Determinants and Effects on Firms' Performance: Evidence from the United Kingdom and Italy written by Fabio Schiantarelli and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January 1997 Firms tend to match assets with liabilities, and more profitable firms have more long-term debt. Long-term debt has a positive effect on firms' performance, but this is not true when a large fraction of that debt is subsidized. The authors empirically investigate the determinants and consequences of the maturity structure of debt, using data from a panel of UK and Italian firms. They find that in choosing a maturity structure for debt, firms tend to match assets and liabilities, as both conventional wisdom and some recent theoretical models suggest. They conclude that more profitable firms (as measured by the ratio of cash flow to capital) tend to have more long-term debt. This finding is consistent with the dominant role played by firms' fear of liquidation and loss of control associated with short-term debt. It may also reflect the willingness of financial markets to provide long-term finance only to quality firms. The data do not support the hypothesis that short-term debt, through better monitoring and control, boosts efficiency and growth -rather, the opposite can be concluded. In both countries, the data suggest a positive relationship between initial debt maturity and the firms' subsequent medium-term performance (i.e., profitability and growth in real sales). In both countries total factor productivity (TFP) depends positively on the length of debt maturity when the maturity variable is entered both contemporaneously and lagged. But in Italy the positive effect of the length of maturity on productivity is substantially reduced or even reversed when the proportion of subsidized credit increases. The authors document the relationship between firms' characteristics and their choice of shorter or long-term debt by estimating a maturity equation and interpreting the results in light of insights from theoretical literature, and by analyzing the effects of maturity on firms' later performance in terms of profitability, growth, and productivity; assess how TFP depends on the degree of leverage and the proportion of longer and shorter-term debt; and analyze the relationship between firms' debt maturity and investment. This paper--a product of the Finance and Private Sector Development Division, Policy Research Department--is part of a larger effort in the department to study the effects of financial structure on economic performance. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project Term Finance: Theory and Evidence (RPO 679-62).
Author : Schiantarelli
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Download or read book The Maturity Structure of Debt written by Schiantarelli and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fabio Schiantarelli
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Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Maturity Structure of Debt written by Fabio Schiantarelli and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firms tend to match asset ...
Author : Fabio Schiantarelli
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Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (777 download)
Download or read book The maturity structure of debt : determinants and effects of firms' performance : evidence from the United Kingdon and Italy written by Fabio Schiantarelli and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sophia Chen
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1484380533
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Debt Maturity and the Use of Short-Term Debt written by Sophia Chen and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The maturity structure of debt can have financial and real consequences. Short-term debt exposes borrowers to rollover risk (where the terms of financing are renegotiated to the detriment of the borrower) and is associated with financial crises. Moreover, debt maturity can have an impact on the ability of firms to undertake long-term productive investments and, as a result, affect economic activity. The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution and determinants of debt maturity and to characterize differences across countries.
Author : Víctor M. González
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Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Firm and Country Determinants of Debt Maturity. International Evidence written by Víctor M. González and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyses the effect of firm- and country-level determinants on debt maturity structure and how this effect varies across countries and across firm size. Results for 39 countries show that firm-level variables such as asset maturity, size, firm quality and leverage affect debt maturity structure. Institutions and banking structure also influence corporate debt maturity. While the efficiency of the legal system, protection of creditors' rights and bank concentration show a positive relationship to debt maturity, the protection of property rights and the weight of banks in the economy have a negative effect on firm debt maturity. However, these firm- and country-level determinants vary according to firm size. The agency costs and signalling hypotheses are more relevant in explaining the debt maturity structure of large firms, while the asset maturity and tax hypotheses are more pertinent in the case of small firms. Most of the country-level determinants of debt maturity are size dependent; in particular, bank concentration has a positive influence on debt maturity only for the subsample of small firms, while the weight of banks in the economy has a negative influence for small firms.
Author : Fabio Schiantarelli
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Download or read book Debt Maturity and Firm Performance: A Panel Study of Indian Companies written by Fabio Schiantarelli and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February 1997 Is long-term debt better than short-term debt in its effect on firm performance? The answer appears to be yes for privately owned companies in India. Economic policymakers traditionally hold the view that, because of imperfections in capital markets, a shortage of long-term finance acts as a barrier to industrial performance and growth. Long-term finance is thought to allow firms to invest in more productive technologies, even when they do not produce immediate payoffs, without the fear of premature liquidation. As a result, special state-supported term-lending institutions have been established, especially in developing countries. But some believe that short-term finance may offer better incentives because it allows suppliers of finance to monitor and control firms more effectively, thus improving the firms' performance. Schiantarelli and Srivastava empirically investigate the determinants and consequences of the term structure of debt. Using a rich panel of data on privately owned companies in India, they also examine the influence of debt maturity structures on those firms' performance, especially on productivity. The results are not conclusive, but seem to support conventional beliefs about the importance of long-term finance to firm performance. Heavy leveraging, however, has a strong negative impact on productivity. They base their econometric evidence on estimates of a maturity equation and of a production function augmented by financial variables. The data on which these results are based have been generated by a financial system in which there is little competition, in which state-owned financial institutions are not guided by the profit motive and have no control over interest rates, so one cannot say whether short term finance would have been more beneficial in a less regulated system. Moreover, by the end of the 1980s, the capital base of India's government-owned financial institutions had been severely eroded and they carried a heavy burden of nonperforming assets. This means that the benefits of long term finance must be weighed against the costs. This paper - a product of the Finance and Private Sector Development Division, Policy Research Department - was prepared for the conference Firm Finance: Theory and Evidence held on June 14, 1996. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under research project Term Finance (RPO 679-62).
Author : Antonios Antoniou
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Determinants of Corporate Debt Maturity Structure written by Antonios Antoniou and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the determinants of corporate debt maturity structure decisions of French, German and UK firms using panel data. These countries are characterised by different financial systems and traditions that have implications on how firms decide their debt maturity structure. We apply several alternative estimation methods and show that in debt structure modelling endogeneity problem should be controlled for. We do so by using Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) estimation method. The GMM results suggest that firms in all three countries adjust their debt ratios to attain their target maturity structure. However, the speed at which firms adjust their maturity structure towards their target levels differs from one country to another. A direct association of debt maturity with leverage in all countries confirms the predictions of the liquidity risk argument. However, corporate tax rate, growth opportunities, liquidity, firm quality, earnings volatility, asset maturity and firm size have different degree and direction of effect on debt maturity across the sample countries. Apart from these firm-specific factors, we also find that the impact of market-related factors (term structure of interest rates, equity premium, share price performance, and interest rate volatility) on debt maturity is country dependent. Hence, the debt maturity structure of a firm is determined by both firm-specific factors and country-specific effects.
Author : George R. G. Clarke
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Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Access to Long Term Debt and Effects of Firm's Performance written by George R. G. Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent theory increasingly emphasizes the association of short-term debt with higher-quality firms and better incentives. The possibility of premature liquidation, for example, may serve as a disciplinary device to improve firm performance. At the same time the role of long-term debt, especially when it is heavily subsidized, is being rethought because so many development banks are plagued with nonperforming loans and doubts about the selection criteria used in allocating funds. The authors explore empirical evidence about the structure of debt maturity in Ecuadorian firms. They discuss how it has been affected by government intervention in credit markets, and by financial liberalization. Using firm panel data, they investigate the determinants of access to long-term debt in Ecuador. Finally, they provide evidence about how the maturity structure of debt affects firms' performance, particularly productivity and capital accumulation. They find that: a) long-term debt is very unevenly distributed; b) large firms are more likely to have access to long term debt than small firms and are on average more profitable; c) conditional on size, operating profits do not increase probability of receiving long-term credit and may actually decrease it, suggesting that the mechanism used to allocate long-term resources in Ecuador may be flawed; d) the allocation problem was worse for directed credit, though there is evidence this problem was less severe after financial liberalization; e) there is a strong positive association between asset maturity and debt maturity, a matching of assets and liabilities; f) shorter-term loans are not conducive to greater productivity, while long-term loans may lead to improvements in productivity; and g) while long-term loans may positively affect the quality of capital accumulation, they do not have an impact on the amount of fixed investment.
Author : Tong Jiao
Publisher :
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Download or read book The Impact of Credit Rating on Firms' Debt Maturity and Ownership Decisions written by Tong Jiao and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Barclay
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Download or read book The Maturity Structure of Corporate Debt written by Michael J. Barclay and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We provide an empirical examination of the determinants of corporate debt maturity. Our evidence offers strong support for the contracting-cost hypothesis. Firms that have few growth options are large, or are regulated have more long-term debt in their capital structure. We find little evidence that firms use the maturity structure of their debt to signal information to the market. The evidence is consistent, however, with the hypothesis that firms with larger information asymmetries issue more short- term debt. We find no evidence that taxes affect debt maturity.
Author : Paulo R. S. Terra
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Determinants of Corporate Debt Maturity in Latin America written by Paulo R. S. Terra and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, I investigate the choice of debt maturity of the firm for a set of countries of Latin America employing dynamic panel data analysis to a sample of 986 non-financial firms from Latin America and 977 from the United States over a 16-year period. Most empirical work in this subject has focused on developed countries, in particular the United States. Also, it is an opportunity to verify the applicability of some of the theories of maturity structure in a multi-country setting. My main findings are that there is a substantial dynamic component in the determination of a firm's maturity structure, firms face moderate adjustment costs towards its optimal maturity, and the determinants of maturity structure and their effects are similar between Latin American countries and the United States, despite obvious differences in the financial and business environments of these countries.
Author : Marco Lamieri
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Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Debt Maturity Structure of Italian Firms written by Marco Lamieri and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this paper is analyze the debt maturity choice of Italian firms using firm-level data. More precisely the analysis is aimed to characterize the profile of firms with different debt maturity and test the presence of a shift in the debt structure after the introduction of the euro currency. A second part of the paper try to grasp how is debt maturity links with firm's performances.
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Download or read book Rivista di politica economica written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bibliographie der Staats-und Wirtschaftswissenschaften written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Damiano Bruno Silipo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3790821128
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Banks and the Italian Economy written by Damiano Bruno Silipo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damiano Bruno Silipo In the 1990s the Italian banking system underwent profound normative, institutional and structural changes. The Consolidated Law on Banking (1993) and that on Finance (1998) instituted the legal framework for a far-reaching overhaul of the Italian banking and ?nancial system: signi?cant relaxation of entry barriers, the liberalization of branching, the privatization of the Italian banks, and a massive process of mergers and acquisitions. Following the Bank of Italy’s liberalization of branching in 1990, in 10 years the number of bank branches increased by 70% in Italy, while in the rest of Europe it declined. Over the decade the average number of banks doing business in a province rose from 27 to 31, while a wave of mergers (324 operations) and acquisitions (137) revolutionized the Italian banking industry, reducing the overall number of Italian banks by 30%. To a signi?cant extent this concentration represented take-overs of troubled Southern banks by Central and Northern ones. As a result of these developments (plus a rise in banking productivity and a fall in costs), the spread between short-term lending and deposit rates fell from 7 percentage points in 1990 to 4 points in 1999. And despite an increase in concentration in a number of local credit markets, the interest-rate differential between the locally dominant and other banks generally narrowed.
