1995
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1995.tb04797.x
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The Maturity Structure of Corporate Debt

Abstract: 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 deb… Show more

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“…De acuerdo con distintos estudios (Amit y Schoemaker, 1993;Caves, 1998, Jovanovic, 1982, las empresas nuevas son las que sufren el mayor riesgo de salida. Por otra parte, en la etapa de madurez, las empresas tienen menores oportunidades de inversión y, como son más estables, muestran un menor riesgo (Diamond,1984;Barclay y Smith, 1995;Black, 1998;Dickinson, 2011). No obstante, las empresas pueden entrar en la etapa declinación en cualquier etapa del ciclo de vida (Dickinson, 2011).…”
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“…De acuerdo con distintos estudios (Amit y Schoemaker, 1993;Caves, 1998, Jovanovic, 1982, las empresas nuevas son las que sufren el mayor riesgo de salida. Por otra parte, en la etapa de madurez, las empresas tienen menores oportunidades de inversión y, como son más estables, muestran un menor riesgo (Diamond,1984;Barclay y Smith, 1995;Black, 1998;Dickinson, 2011). No obstante, las empresas pueden entrar en la etapa declinación en cualquier etapa del ciclo de vida (Dickinson, 2011).…”
Section: Modelos Empíricosunclassified
“…Según la teoría de las jerarquías financieras (Myers, 1984;Bulan y Yan, 2010), a efectos de financiar las nuevas oportunidades de inversión ante la falta de autofinanciación, se recurre a las deudas. En esta etapa, la mayor parte de la financiación se realiza mediante deudas bancarias sin intermediación y de corto plazo (Diamond, 1984;Barclay y Smith, 1995).…”
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“…Firms can shorten the maturity of debt to mitigate underinvestment problem because short-term debt is considered a disciplining tool due to the need for frequent roll over (Barclay & Smith, 1995;Dennis, Nandy, & Sharpe, 2000;Guedes & Opler, 1996;Johnson, 2003;Myers, 1977;Ozkan, 2000). Firms are also found to shorten the maturity of debt to preserve future debt capacity if future growth opportunities are recognised sufficiently early (Aivazian, Ge, & Qui, 2005a;Diamond & He, 2014).…”
Section: Literature and Hypotheses Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It also mitigates the underinvestment problem or debt overhang in the firm's investment decisions (Myers, 1977;Diamond & He, 2014). Studies by Titman and Wessels (1988), Barclay and Smith (1995), and Guedes and Opler (1996) support such arguments and find that smaller firms with more growth opportunities have a smaller proportion of long-term debt. Besides, higher business risk stocks in the industries with higher earnings volatility tend to have higher short-term debt.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…The theories of debt maturity were first considered during the 1980s and the empirical studies to assess the related hypotheses only started during the mid-1990s (for e.g. Barclay & Smith, 1995;Stohs & Mauer, 1996;Stephan, Talavera, & Tsapin, 2011;Terra, 2011). Based on theories, different debt maturities are claimed to have their respective advantages and disadvantages in the context of firm value creation.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%