1. Ownership Structure and Growth Opportunities as Determinants of Bank Debt: Evidence from Chilean Companies
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Eleuterio Vallelado González and Paolo Saona Hoffmann
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Finance ,business.industry ,Strategy and Management ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Debt-to-GDP ratio ,Financial system ,External debt ,Information asymmetry ,Debt ,Agency (sociology) ,Internal debt ,Business and International Management ,Debt levels and flows ,business ,media_common ,Panel data - Abstract
Our aim is to analyze the type of lender and the debt maturity of Chilean firms as a function of their ownership structure and their growth opportunities. We perform the empirical analysis using an unbalanced panel data of 169 firms from 1990 to 2001. Our results show that Chilean firms with growth opportunities, ownership concentration, and a need for external funds issue short‐term bank debt to finance their new investments. This financing source is an efficient mechanism in Chile to alleviate agency and asymmetric information problems. The Chilean institutional environment influences firms’ decisions on banking debt.
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- 2005
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