Government Debt and Corporate Leverage: International Evidence /
Demirci, Irem.
Government Debt and Corporate Leverage: International Evidence / Irem Demirci, Jennifer Huang, Clemens Sialm. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w23310 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23310. .
April 2017.
We investigate the impact of government debt on corporate financing decisions. We document a negative relation between government debt and corporate leverage using data on 40 countries between 1990 and 2014. This negative relation holds only for government debt that is financed domestically and is stronger for larger and more profitable firms and in countries with more developed equity markets. In order to address potential endogeneity concerns, we use an instrumental variable approach based on military spending and a quasi-natural experiment based on the introduction of the Euro currency. Our findings suggest that government debt crowds out corporate debt.
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Government Debt and Corporate Leverage: International Evidence / Irem Demirci, Jennifer Huang, Clemens Sialm. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w23310 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23310. .
April 2017.
We investigate the impact of government debt on corporate financing decisions. We document a negative relation between government debt and corporate leverage using data on 40 countries between 1990 and 2014. This negative relation holds only for government debt that is financed domestically and is stronger for larger and more profitable firms and in countries with more developed equity markets. In order to address potential endogeneity concerns, we use an instrumental variable approach based on military spending and a quasi-natural experiment based on the introduction of the Euro currency. Our findings suggest that government debt crowds out corporate debt.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.