2008-09-01
Capital structure around the world: The roles of firm- and country-specific determinants
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Journal of Banking & Finance , Volume 32 - Issue 9 p. 1954- 1969
We analyze the importance of firm-specific and country-specific factors in the leverage choice of firms from 42 countries around the world. Our analysis yields two new results. First, we find that firm-specific determinants of leverage differ across countries, while prior studies implicitly assume equal impact of these determinants. Second, although we concur with the conventional direct impact of country-specific factors on the capital structure of firms, we show that there is an indirect impact because country-specific factors also influence the roles of firm-specific determinants of leverage.
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doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2007.12.034, hdl.handle.net/1765/13591 | |
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de Jong, A., Kabir, R., & Nguyen, T. T. (2008). Capital structure around the world: The roles of firm- and country-specific determinants. Journal of Banking & Finance, 32(9), 1954–1969. doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2007.12.034 |