Empirical Analysis of the Hold-Up Problem in Debt Financing: Evidence from Japanese Listed Firms

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromichi Iwaki
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Debt Financing ◽  
Listed Firms

Volatility of Corporate Debt Financing and Cross-Section of Stock Returns : Empirical Analysis of Financial Constraint Puzzle in Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-138
Author(s):  
Heonsoo Kim ◽  
Byung-Uk Chong ◽  
In-Deok Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Debt Financing ◽  
Size Factor ◽  
Financial Constraint ◽  
Firm Characteristics ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Book To Market Ratio ◽  
Negative Impacts

This paper investigates the effects of the volatility of debt financing on cross-sectional variation of stock returns. Through the empirical analysis of listed firms in Korea for the 2005-2016 estimation period, this paper provides persistent and significant evidence that the volatility of debt financing has negative impacts on stock returns while controlling for market factor and firm characteristics such as size factor (firm size, market capitalization), value factor (book-to-market ratio), and momentum factor. While using both monthly average of stock returns and Fama-French-Carhart 4-factor risk-adjusted stock returns as dependent variables, the estimations of Fama-MacBeth cross-sectional regressions produce negative and statistically significant coefficient on the volatility of debt financing. The findings of this paper makes an academic contribution by providing the evidence that the volatility of debt financing, as a measure of financial constraint, plays a role as an anomaly factor for “financial constraint pricing puzzle” in Korean stock market.

Corporate social responsibility and debt financing of listed firms: a quantile regression approach

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kofi Mintah Oware ◽  
T. Mallikarjunappa
Keyword(s):  
Quantile Regression ◽  
Debt Financing ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Leverage Ratio ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Conditional Mean ◽  
Natural Logarithm ◽  
Corporate Social

Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on debt financing (natural logarithm of debt and leverage ratios) of listed firms. Design/methodology/approach Using content analysis for data extraction, the study examines listed firms on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) from 2010 to 2019 financial year. It uses a quantile regression and panel fixed effect regression as the model's application. Findings The study shows that CSR expenditure has a positive and strong correlation with debt financing (i.e. natural logarithm of long-term and short-term debts). The first findings show that CSR expenditure has a negative and statistically significant association with total leverage ratio, using conditional mean and median percentile. However, there is a positive and statistically significant association between CSR expenditure and long-term leverage ratio at the 25th and 50th percentile. The second findings show that CSR expenditure has a positive and statistically significant association with long-term debt but an insignificant association with short-term debt and total debt under a conditional mean average. The application of quantile regression addresses the values that fall outside the confidence interval and therefore document a positive and statistically significant association between CSR expenditure and debt financing (short-term debt, long-term debt and total debt) at the 25th, 50th and 75th percentile. Originality/value The introduction of quantile regression gives a novelty in CSR and debt financing study, which to the best of the authors’ knowledge, has not received any attention. Similarly, firms have better information on how to position their CSR expenditure to attract providers of debt financing.

scholarly journals Debt financing and firm performance: The moderating role of board independence

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-151
Author(s):  
Hanh Song Thi Pham ◽  
Duy Thanh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Market ◽  
Debt Financing ◽  
Board Independence ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

This article investigates the moderating role of board independence in the relationship between debt financing and performance of emerging market firms. We have used an empirical model in which the firm’s accounting profitability is a dependent variable and the independent variables are debt financing, board independence, the interaction variable made of debt financing and board independence as well as various control variables. Our analysis is based on a panel data set of 300 listed firms in Vietnam between 2013 and 2017. Our study finds that debt financing has a significantly negative effect and that board independence reduces the adverse impact of debt financing on accounting profitability. Our results are consistent across different estimation models and methods.

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