The Effect of National Pension Shareholder Activism on the Relationship between Earnings Management and the Cost of Debt Capital

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-271
Author(s):  
Sun－Hwa Kim
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Shareholder Activism ◽  
Cost Of Debt ◽  
Debt Capital ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Will the Reduction of CO2 Emissions Lower the Cost of Debt Financing? The Case of EU Countries

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (24) ◽  
pp. 8361
Author(s):  
Sylwester Kozak
Keyword(s):  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Risk Premium ◽  
Cost Of Debt ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Debt Capital ◽  
Reduction Of Co2 ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company

The main objective of this article is to test the relationship between the intensity of CO2 emissions and company’s cost of debt capital. This study fills a gap in the financial literature on this compound by examining a sample of 225 large nonfinancial enterprises operating in 15 EU countries in the years 2018–2021. The fractional logit regression controlling for company’s characteristics (assets, profitability, liquidity and leverage) was used. The results show that by reducing the intensity of CO2 emissions, a company can reduce the cost of debt. This relationship was confirmed for three measures of intensity, i.e., CO2 emissions in relation to revenues, assets and number of employees. Markets and financial institutions impose an additional risk premium in relation to companies operating in an industry considered to be comprised of strong CO2 emitters. The use of the latest data for a wide sample of European enterprises provides an up-to-date assessment of the analyzed issues and the results can be used by enterprises and public authorities when analyzing the benefits of implementing a technology that reduces CO2 emissions.

scholarly journals Does Real Earnings Management Explain Cost of Debt? Evidence from an Emerging Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-236
Author(s):  
Nguyen Vinh Khuong ◽  
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Nguyen Thanh Liem ◽  
Bui Thi Ngan Dung ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Real Earnings Management ◽  
Cost Of Debt ◽  
Regression Result ◽  
Managerial Behavior ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Debt Capital ◽  
The Relationship

This study tested the relationship between real earnings management and debt cost in Vietnam, a developing market. We used the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) Technique on a sample of 241 listed firms in Vietnam for 7 years from 2010 to 2016, with a total of 1687 observations collected. The regression result showed a positive association between real earnings management and cost of debt. The results of the study revealed that real earnings management is shown through the rising transactions and directly affected financial reports, thereby affecting creditors by affecting their cost of debt. This can be seen as the driving force for listed companies to increase the quality of their financial information. Our study only focussed on earnings manipulation through real earnings management (REM) to affect transaction costs in Vietnam. The research explains the relationship between managerial behavior (real earnings management) and direct influence on creditors' behavior (cost of debt capital). The result would give outside stakeholders an overall view about the usage of REM in Vietnamese listed firms, the reasonable action of investors, financial institutions, banks, etc on the debt market to reduce risk and the signal of warning for regulators and policy-makers. Keywords: real activities earnings management, cost of debt capital

scholarly journals The Relationship Between the Intellectual Capital Disclosure and Cost of Debt Capital – A Case of Slovenian Private Audited Organisations

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neca Stropnik ◽  
Bojana Korošec ◽  
Polona Tominc
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Cost Of Debt ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Debt Capital ◽  
Agency Issues ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe existing empirical research into the association between intellectual capital disclosures by organisations and the cost of debt is scarce or is based solely on the samples of the (large) listed organisations. Since agency issues between management/owners and lenders exist also in (large) private organisations whose financing is greatly dependent on loans and whose audited annual reports can be a source of additional information for external users, we performed an empirical research to find the answer to the question whether the level of intellectual capital disclosure (as a whole and of its sub-categories) of organisations is associated with the cost of their debt capital. Our study was performed on a sample of private Slovenian organisations with audited annual reports. The results of our research did not reveal that lenders would take into account intellectual capital disclosures by Slovenian private audited organisations as the information about the potential for their future cash flows when deciding on the cost of debt issued to these organisations.

The Effect of Profitability and Financial Leverage on Cost of Debt Moderated Earnings Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Herman Ruslim, Renny Muspyta
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Cost Of Debt ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Financial Leverage ◽  
Publicly Traded ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Publicly Traded Companies ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Cost

This study aims to determine the effect of profitability and Financial Leverage on the Cost of Debt, and the role of Earnings Management as a moderating variable. In this study, profitability is measured by the ratio of return on equity, financial leverage is measured by the proxy debt ratio, earnings management as measured by discretionary accruals, and cost of debt is measured by the ratio of interest expense divided by the average total debt. The population in this study are publicly traded companies listed on the IDX, and the sample used is manufacturing companies listed on the IDX for the 2016-2019 period. Based on the purposive sampling method, the samples obtained were 69 manufacturing companies and 276 observations. The results showed that profitability has a negative effect on the cost of debt, while financial leverage has no effect on the cost of debt, earnings management cannot weaken the negative effect of profitability on the cost of debt and earnings management cannot weaken the negative effect of financial leverage on the cost of debt.

scholarly journals The cost of debt capital revisited

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 721-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Baule
Keyword(s):  
Cost Of Debt ◽  
Debt Capital ◽  
The Cost

The 2008–2009 global financial crisis and the cost of debt capital among SMEs: Swedish evidence

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darush Yazdanfar ◽  
Peter Öhman
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
Cost Of Debt ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Debt Capital ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Cost

PurposeThe main purpose of this study is to describe and analyse the relationship between the 2008–2009 global financial crisis and small and medium-sized enterprises' cost of debt capital.Design/methodology/approachStatistical methods, including multiple OLS and dynamic panel data, were used to analyse a longitudinal cross-sectional panel dataset of 3865 Swedish SMEs operating in five industry sectors over the 2008–2015 period.FindingsThe results suggest that the cost of debt was influenced by the financial crisis and another macroeconomic factor, i.e. the interbank interest rate, and by firm-specific factors such as firm size and lagged cost of debt.Originality/valueTo the authors' best knowledge, this is one of few studies to examine the cost of debt among SMEs during the crisis and post-crisis periods using data from a large-scale, longitudinal, cross-sectional database.

scholarly journals ESG Scores and the Credit Market

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ga-Young Jang ◽  
Hyoung-Goo Kang ◽  
Ju-Yeong Lee ◽  
Kyounghun Bae
Keyword(s):  
Small Firms ◽  
Credit Rating ◽  
Credit Ratings ◽  
Debt Financing ◽  
Corporate Bond ◽  
Cost Of Debt ◽  
Rating Agencies ◽  
Bond Returns ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Relationship

This study analyzes the relationship between Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) scores and bond returns using the corporate bond data in Korea during the period of 2010 to 2015. We find that ESG scores include valuable information about the downside risk of firms. This effect is particularly salient for the firms with high information asymmetry such as small firms. Interestingly, of the three ESG criteria, only environmental scores show a significant impact on bond returns when interacted with the firm size, suggesting that high environmental scores lower the cost of debt financing for small firms. Finally, ESG is complementary to credit ratings in assessing credit quality as credit ratings cannot explain away ESG effects in predicting future bond returns. This result suggests that credit rating agencies should either integrate ESG scores into their current rating process or produce separate ESG scores which bond investors integrate with the existing credit ratings by themselves.

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