Author: Carl O'DonnellPublisher:
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Category : Capital structure
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The Interaction of Capital Structure and Product-market Behaviour
Author: Carl O'DonnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital structure
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
The Relationship between Capital Structure and Product Markets
Author: David J. SmithPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
We investigate whether the capital structure of New Zealand firms influences their product-market performance in the period from 1984 to 2008. Our main findings are that the use of leverage by publicly listed New Zealand companies leads to an increase in relative-to-industry sales growth, but a decrease in relative-to-industry return on assets (ROA). We also conduct a reverse causality test by examining whether sales growth and ROA influence leverage. We find no evidence that sales growth has an impact on the use of debt, but significant evidence that ROA is negatively correlated with its use. Our results suggest that New Zealand firms use debt to compete more aggressively in their product markets, even though this strategy comes at a cost of lower relative-to-industry profitability. A possible explanation for this behaviour is the more competitive trading environment that has developed in New Zealand over the last 25 years.
Capital Structure and Product Market Behavior
Author: Daniel J. KovenockCapital Structure and Product-market Behavior
Author: Judith A. ChevalierFirm's Capital Structure and Factor-Product Markets
Author: Abdulaziz IstaitiehPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The objective of this work is to offer a theoretical overview of the literature that links capital structure and factor-product markets, in order to show what we do know about these connections. This literature relates some elements of the modern financial theory to the stakeholder theory, industrial organization, and firm's strategic management. Three main points could be highlighted. First, the relevant role of non-financial stakeholders in capital structure design. Second, the interactions existing between capital structure and market structure. Third, the two-direction effect between the firm's capital structure and its strategic behavior in product markets.
Capital Structure and Product Markets Interactions
Author: Murillo CampelloPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This paper provides firm- and industry-level evidence on the effects of capital structure on product market outcomes for a large cross-section of industries. The analysis uses shocks to aggregate demand as surrogates for exogenous changes in the product market environment, dealing with concerns about the endogenous nature of the relation between financial structure and competitive performance. I find that debt financing has a negative impact on firm (relative-to-industry) sales growth in industries where rivals are relatively unlevered during recessions, but not during booms. In contrast, no such effects are observed for firms competing in high-debt industries. At the industry level, I find that markups are more countercyclical when industry debt is high. The cyclical dynamics I find for firm sales growth and for industry markups are consistent with Chevalier and Scharfstein's (1996) prediction that firms that rely more heavily on external financing are more prone to boost short-term profits at the expense of future sales in response to negative shocks to demand, and that the competitive outcomes resulting from such actions depend on the financial structures of their industry rivals.
Capital Structure and Product Market Behavior
Author: Daniel J. KovenockPublisher:
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Category : Capital investments
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Stakeholder Theory, Market Structure and the Firm's Capital Structure
Author: Abdulaziz IstaitiehPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
A new literature linking capital structure and factor-product markets has been under focus in the last few years. This literature relates some elements of the modern financial theory to the stakeholder theory, market structure, and firm's strategic behavior. In this paper, we will examine the interactions between capital structure and factor-product markets through a system of simultaneous equations with panel data. Our data set contains a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms between 1993 and 1999. We specify a financial leverage equation that depends mainly on factor-product markets. Moreover, we specify a second equation to analyze how product market concentration is affected by financial leverage, among other things. Finally, capital structure was empirically showed to affect and be affected by factor-product markets.
The Link Between Capital Structure and Product Market Competition
Author: Lee GreerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The relationship between capital structure and product market competition is examined using a theoretical model and two econometric analyses. In an extension of Glazer (1994), a theoretical model is derived that allows a quantity leader and follower to issue debt and then twice play a sequential product market game, after which each firm must either repay its debt in full or go bankrupt. It is demonstrated that the follower maximizes operating profit irrespective of capital structure but that the levered quantity leader in every period produces more than the Stackelberg profit-maximizing level of output. As such, the industry characterized by a financially levered leader and follower is more competitive than it otherwise would be. Simultaneous equations models consisting of a demand and supply relation are used to analyze monthly data from the domestic steel industry so as to test whether the industry's increased reliance on debt finance over the period 1958 to 1981 affected competition in the market for steel. The supply relation, which follows from the assumption that firms simultaneously select output in order to maximize profit, is augmented with a sales-weighted debt to market value ratio. Two-stage least squares (2SLS), weighted two-stage least squares (W2SLS), and iterative weighted three-stage least squares (IW3SLS) regressions are estimated. Results from all regressions show a statistically significant and positive relationship between the sales-weighted debt-value ratio and the price of steel, which suggests that increased debt finance served to reduce competition in the domestic steel industry over the sample period. In light of the fact that U.S. Steel's market share over the sample period was significantly higher and less volatile than that of any other integrated producer, the second econometric model tests the null hypothesis of quantity leadership, using insights from the theoretical model. Two supply relations, one for the leader and one for the follower, are derived and estimated. To account for the possibly endogenous decision on the part of U.S. Steel to issue debt, a binomial probit is estimated and its fitted probabilities are included as a predetermined variable in the leader's supply relation. Results show that one must reject the null hypothesis of quantity leadership and that U.S. Steel's decision to issue debt had a positive but statistically insignificant effect on the composite steel price.
Capital Structure and Firm Performance
Author: Arvin GhoshPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351530178
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Capital structure theory is one of the most dynamic areas of finance and forms the basis for modern thinking on the capital structure of firms. Much controversy has resulted from comparisons of the theory of capital structure originally developed by Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller to real-world situations. Two competing theories have emerged over the years, the optimal capital structure theory and the pecking order theory.Arvin Ghosh begins with an overview of the controversies regarding capital structure theories, and then statistically tests both the optimal capital structure and pecking order theories. Using the binomial approach he analyzes the determinants of capital structure while discussing the role of market power in determining capital structure decisions. Ghosh probes the questions of new stock offerings and stockholders' returns, and analyzes capital structure and executive compensation. He then looks into debt financing ownership structure, and the controversal relationship between capital structure and firm profitability. Finally, he discusses the latest developments in the field of capital structure.A concise overview of a major issue in business economics and finance, this volume provides a fuller understanding of capital structure influence on the financial performance of firms, and will certainly stimulate further debate. While hundreds of scholarly articles have been written on the subject this is the first book to test competing theories against measurements of firms' performance and their underlying capital structure.