Leverage, competition and financial distress hazard: Implications for capital structure in the presence of agency costs

2021 ◽  
pp. 105740
Author(s):  
Mehmet Ugur ◽  
Edna Solomon ◽  
Ayaz Zeynalov
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Agency Costs

scholarly journals MANAGING CORPORATE LIQUIDITY: STRATEGIES AND PRICING IMPLICATIONS

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (03) ◽  
pp. 369-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
ATTAKRIT ASVANUNT ◽  
MARK BROADIE ◽  
SURESH SUNDARESAN
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Agency Costs ◽  
Equity Prices ◽  
Loan Commitments ◽  
Optimal Capital Structure ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Optimal Capital ◽  
The Impact

Defaults arising from illiquidity can lead to private workouts, formal bankruptcy proceedings or even liquidation. All these outcomes can result in deadweight losses. Corporate illiquidity in the presence of realistic capital market frictions can be managed by (a) equity dilution, (b) carrying positive cash balances, or (c) entering into loan commitments with a syndicate of lenders. An efficient way to manage illiquidity is to rely on mechanisms that transfer cash from "good states" into "bad states" (i.e., financial distress) without wasting liquidity in the process. In this paper, we first investigate the impact of costly equity dilution as a method to deal with illiquidity, and characterize its effects on corporate debt prices and optimal capital structure. We show that equity dilution produces lower firm value in general. Next, we consider two alternative mechanisms: cash balances and loan commitments. Abstracting from future investment opportunities and share re-purchases, which are strong reasons for corporate cash holdings, we show that carrying positive cash balances for managing illiquidity is in general inefficient relative to entering into loan commitments, since cash balances (a) may have agency costs, (b) reduce the riskiness of the firm thereby lowering the option value to default, (c) postpone or reduce dividends in good states, and (d) tend to inject liquidity in both good and bad states. Loan commitments, on the other hand, (a) reduce agency costs, and (b) permit injection of liquidity in bad states as and when needed. Then, we study the trade-offs between these alternative approaches to managing corporate illiquidity. We show that loan commitments can lead to an improvement in overall welfare and reduction in spreads on existing debt for a broad range of parameter values. We derive explicit pricing formulas for debt and equity prices. In addition, we characterize the optimal draw down strategy for loan commitments, and study its impact on optimal capital structure.

scholarly journals Estructura de capital, concentración de propiedad y política de dividendos como factores determinantes de problemas de agencia en empresas chilenas

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Vallejos Villa
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Agency Costs ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Managerial Discretion ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Linear Effect ◽  
Management Efficiency ◽  
Turnover Ratio ◽  
Asset Turnover

The objective of this paper is to analyze the capital structure, the concentration of property and the policy of dividends as determinants of the problems of agency in Chilean companies. As a measure of agency costs, the asset turnover ratio was used as a benchmark for management efficiency in the use of the company's assets, which is an inverse measure of agency costs. The results show that a higher level of indebtedness seems to favor the discretional behavior of managers. However, there is also evidence that when the debt is a short-term debt, the divergence of interest decreases between shareholders and managers. The concentration of property on the other hand has a non-linear effect on the costs of agency, which means that, first, it acts as a mechanism to attenuate managerial discretion, but when it reaches a certain level, an effect of expropriation of major shareholders over minor shareholders seems to be produced. In relation to the dividend policy, a positive relationship is observed with efficiency in the use of assets, mainly in the presence of high growth opportunities.

scholarly journals STRUKTUR MODAL TERHADAP NILAI PERUSAHAAN

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masdar Mas’ud
Keyword(s):  
Capital Structure ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Company Value ◽  
Growth Opportunity ◽  
Tax Shields ◽  
Manufacturing Company ◽  
Size Growth ◽  
The Capital Structure

The study attempts to analyze the factors of capital structure determiner and its impact on company value. The research aims at examining and analyzing the effect of profitability, size, growth opportunity, asset structure, cost of financial distress, and tax shields effects as the capital structure determiners on the manufacturing companies registered at Indonesia Stock Exchange. The differences between the factors of capital structure determiners (consisting of profitability, size, growth opportunity, asset structure, cost of financial distress, and tax shields effects) and the value of manufacturing companie registered at Indonesia Stock Exchange. The sample includes 59 companies registered at Indonesia Stock Exchange the data analysis instrument employed was Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and t-test. The results of the research indicate that the factors of capital structure determiners, which have significant effect on capital structures, are profitability, size, growth opportunity, asset structure and cost of financial distress. The exception may be tax shields effects, which do not give significant effect at all on capital structure. The latter becomes evident because the depreciation and amortization rates of the registered Indonesia manufacturing company do not seem significant to contribute to company cash flow so that it stands out of company debt proportion.The factors of capital structure determiners with significant effect on capital structures involve profitability, size, asset structure, and cost of financial distress and tax shields effects. Size and growth opportunity do not have significant effect on the capital structure because manufacturing companies consider financing their investment using equity financing to deal with little financial risk regardless the size of company. It shows that there is a similarity on these factors of capital structure determiner between manufacturing company registered at Indonesia Stock Exchange the insignificantly defferent determiner factors pertain to growth opportunity, asset structure and company value. Meanwhile, the difference also develops between the factors of capital structure determiner in the manufacturing company registered at Indonesia Stock Exchange. The significantly different determiner factors will be profitability, size, cost of financial distress; tax shields effects and capital structure.

scholarly journals Corporate governance and capital structure in the periods of financial distress. Evidence from Greece

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 254-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Kyriazopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Outside Directors ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Athens Stock Exchange

This study examines the relationship between corporate governance and capital structure employing data from the Athens Stock Exchange for the period 2005-2014. This period encompasses the sovereign debt crisis erupted in Greece at the end of 2009 and still continues to hit households and businesses alike. The results from the panel regression analysis signify the role of corporate governance structures in determining the capital structure of the Greek listed firms. In particular, the empirical results reveal a negative impact of board size on debt levels, which is weakened during the debt crisis period. In contrast, the presence of outside directors provides the appropriate certification to use more debt. Finally, growth opportunities and profitability are the two firm-specific factors which effect was weakened during the financially-constraint period.

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