... already shown that credit decreases as L increases, since liquidation is less inefficient and financial slack is less valuable If the agent s outside option R increases, the agent becomes more ... as soon as asset values fall below the face value of debt eliminate the asset substitution problem Here, there is no asset substitution despite the fact that debt may be risky 25 While we assume ... that as ∆t → ∞ and starting a new firm becomes impossible, R → 0, and as ∆t → and restarting is costless, R → R∗, the point at which b′(R∗) = (These are but two special cases – other cost structures...
... January 2006 Costs of Financial Distress The discussions in the sections on irrelevance and taxes assumed that we keep the value of the assets of the business constant as debt financing is added (with ... CapitalStructure Survey Results In this section we present the results of the survey pertaining to capitalstructure Defining Debt To start the capitalstructure section of the survey, we asked ... corporate taxes on capitalstructure It assumes that there are no personal taxes Assumptions We start with the perfect capital market assumptions except for the tax assumption, which changes to: Corporations...
... plans to sell shares, options to purchase shares, bonds and loans Optimalcapitalstructure is the plan, which is now the smallest capital cost and highest stock prices A capitalstructure is consistent ... to use the profits to invest resources instead of using debt, this also reduces the financial risk for them In addition, businesses can decrease the cost of capital By summaries, businesses have ... training is offered to business pressures Funding from the share capital does not create user cost of capital for businesses However, shareholders may intervene in business activities operating...
... of organisational success also satisfies the personal needs of the stewards Stewardship theory suggests that managers should be given autonomy based on trust, which minimizes the cost of monitoring ... Companies (JSCs) • Must have at least shareholders but no maximum • Ownership is divided into ordinary shares and several types of classes of preferential shares • May issue securities for fund raising ... performance So, statistical analysis using SPSS software was conducted 3.3 Qualitative Research Qualitative research is a type of scientific research In general terms, scientific research consists of...
... types of leverage and the relationships between them Describe the basic types of capital, external assessment of capitalstructure and capitalstructure theory Explain the optimalcapitalstructure ... maximisation goal requires us to consider both return and risk when making capitalstructure decisions We must link market value with the return and risk associated with alternative capital structures ... Involves selecting the capitalstructure that maximises EPS over the expected range of EBIT Focuses on maximisation of earnings rather than maximisation of shareholder wealth Five step process:...
... represents the optimalcapitalstructure if it results in the lowest possible WACC This optimalcapitalstructure is sometimes called the firm s target capitalstructure as well However, it is not ... Government should consider lending without guarantee especially to SMEs It also should consider lowering interest rates to make ways for SMEs to access capital markets Conclusion This thesis studies the ... var Sum squared resid Durbin-Watson stat 0.989639 883.6740 1.348435 Weighted Statistics R-squared Adjusted Rsquared S. E of regression F-statistic Prob(F-statistic) Unweighted Statistics R-squared...
... Capitalstructure in small and medium-sized enteprises: the case of Vietnam” ASEAN Economic Bulletin Nguyễn Ngọc Vũ (2003) “Determinants of capitalstructure for listed firms in the Vietnam stock ... stock Exchange Market” Danang University Press, Danang, Vietnam Stata Web Book University of California, Los Angeles Panel data analysis using Stata Princeton University Khanh Email : 0976 123 987 ... (1958), “The Cost of Capital, Corporate Finance,and the Theory of Investment” American Economic Review Rajan, R G & Zingales, L, (1995), “What we know about capital structure? Some evidence from...
... Impact on CapitalStructure Decisions—Plus or Minus Tests Coefficients and standard errors from pooled time-series cross-section regressions of net debt raised for the year minus net equity raised ... Tests Table VI shows results of the Credit Score tests and POM tests by Broad Rating Credit rating effects persist throughout the ratings spectrum The power of these tests is reduced as the sample ... offerings As discussed previously, very large offerings are likely to have ratings consequences for all firms, so discrete costs (benefits) of ratings changes not obviously imply distinguishing...
... (2009), stable capital structures arise from stable asset structures Banks chose an optimalcapitalstructure given a customer-determined structure of their assets This difference may be a promising ... Paper Series No 1096 Septembre 2009 41 se se se se se se se se se se Number of observations R2 constant Coverage(Deposits) Coverage(GDP) Log(Risk) Dividends Collateral Log(Size) Profits Market-to-book ... bankruptcy costs for firms and banks, Mason s (2005) results suggest that bankruptcy costs for banks are not systematically lower than for firms Due to the opacity of banks’ assets and other factors, the...
... in two ways First, a large investment house or pension fund could allow its less risk-averse investors to sell short to the more riskaverse investors, as a purely internal transaction Second, and ... investors can gain most of the advantages of holding the 10 assets classes examined from choosing among three asset classes: a money market fund, stocks, and bonds of years duration If two funds ... pricing model which assumes the existence of a riskless asset In that special case Rmin is simply the riskless rate and o^in i s zero By substituting the equilibrium values of R( - Rmin from equation...
... regression models The Results of Hypotheses Testing The results of seemingly unrelated regression analysis are shown in Table Table 1: The results of seemingly unrelated regression analysis Method: ... conclusions of study and suggestions for future researches are discussed Literature Review 2.1 Prior Studies Capitalstructure is a combination of debt and equity of companies This structure includes ... results show that in country 's financial markets, unstable economic environment and external events have effects on investment decisions of companies They also express that issuance of bonds...
... regressions to test the sensitivity of the CR-CS model to the four attributes that comprise our four hypotheses The first hypothesis tests the sensitivity of the CR variables in the above regressions ... financing and capitalstructure decisions The results not support this hypothesis, calling into question the role of credit ratings in capitalstructure decisions Our evidence suggests that for ... attract institutional investors, as this is a critical regulatory hurdle The loss of institutional investors can be quite costly to a firm due to discrete costs associated with the loss of this market...
... mortgages, debentures etc.) and intangible assets (such as goodwill and brands) 12.1 73.8 14.0 Assets Current Assets∗ Tangible Assets Other Assets∗ 2003 26.7 26.4 47.0 Assets Current Assets∗ Tangible ... 2003 Transport & Communication Notes: ∗ Current Assets include cash and deposits, debtors, short-term bills and bonds, stocks and inventories Other Assets include investments (such as shares, mortgages, ... corporate capitalstructure theory lacks consensus, it is arguably the case that financial distress costs, signaling and information costs all play some role in determining a firm scapital structure...
... DECISION TO FINANCE WITH DEBT B HOW DOES FINANCIAL RISK DIFFER FROM BUSINESS RISK? ANSWER: [SHOW S1 3-8 HERE.] AS WE DISCUSSED ABOVE, BUSINESS RISK DEPENDS ON A NUMBER OF FACTORS SUCH AS SALES AND ... new setup Accordingly, this suggests that the new production setup is less risky than the old one variable costs drop very sharply, while fixed costs rise less, so the firm has lower costs at ... ASKING AND THEN ANSWERING THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS A WHAT IS BUSINESS RISK? WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCE A FIRM S BUSINESS RISK? Integrated Case: 13 - 21 ANSWER: [SHOW S1 3-1 THROUGH S1 3-3 HERE.] BUSINESS...
... assets; SIZE = ln(sales); TA= fixed tangible assets / total assets Table reported summary statistics for the variables used in the study The total debt to total assets (TDTA) for the sample as ... assets; SIZE = ln(sales) Page 34 CapitalStructure and Firm Performance Table 12: Estimate Results for Model Using STDTA Constant STDTA t-Statistic Prob GROWTH t-Statistic Prob SIZE t-Statistic ... assets; STDTA = short-tern debt to total assets; GROWTH = total assets - book value of equity + market value of equity / total assets; SIZE = ln(sales); TA= fixed tangible assets / total assets...
... factors for non-responses for us to consider 2.9 Previous capitalstructure thesises Andersson and Williamsson (2001) concluded in their study on six family businesses that the choice of capitalstructure ... a strategic question for SMEs, how risk affects the capitalstructure decision and how this decision is made in a family business These theories are presented to shed light on the capitalstructure ... Theories CapitalStructure Theories This chapter starts by introducing some general theories of capitalstructure and then theories of relevant theories for SMEs capitalstructure decisions are presented...
... least squares (OLS) is employed in all the regressions The following section discusses the results for these regressions CAPITALSTRUCTURE DETERMINANTS: REGRESSION RESULTS As noted above, Models ... less on debt The results also support the agency theory of capitalstructure firms with more assets “entrenched” as tangibles assets issue more debt (presumably because of a mitigated asset substitution ... Models 1, 2, & 3, these results suggest a matching of maturity between assets and loans The results for the size variable (LNAS) are somewhat similar to those in the previous set of models For instance,...
... idiosyncratic resources Capital Structure: Imitability and Substitutability Considerations The discussion in the preceding sections suggests that strategic assets, i.e., those with higher specificity, should ... gains from its specialized resources; poor capitalstructure decisions lead to a possible reduction/loss in the value derived from strategic assets Strategic Management Research and CapitalStructure ... IMPLICATIONS What does the above discussion imply for firm performance? Resource-based theorists have often made the assumption that the possession of strategic assets, by definition, leads to sustainable...
... we show our main results and robustness checks for the hypothesis tests For expositional convenience, we first discuss all of the tests and robustness checks for the agency costs hypothesis, using ... discusses issues of measuring performance, reverse causality, and the use of ownership structure in tests of the agency costs of capitalstructure Section specifies the simultaneous equations model ... bank s own price, as discussed above The variable loan outputs are measured gross of allowances for expected losses The variable securities output is measured as gross total assets less loans and...