Estructura de vencimiento de la deuda y riesgo de crédito en las empresas españolas.

This paper analyzes the relation between debt maturity structure and default risk. We use data on over 47,189 non-financial Spanish firms during the period 1995-2006. The results show that firms rated as low risk have more long-term debt. However, maturity is a non-monotonic function of risk ratings, with low risk firms and high risk firms having short-term debt and intermediate risk firms having long-term debt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]