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Capital structure and institutional setting: a decompositional and international analysis

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  • Felix Lopez-Iturriaga
  • Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Sanz

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The legal and institutional setting is more and more influential in firms' financial decisions. Our article analyses firms' capital structure in an international framework in order to assess the different level of debt use across countries and to identify both common and differential explanatory factors. Although the level of financial leverage is quite different, the factors that have traditionally driven capital structure decisions have much in common in all the legal and institutional settings. The performance and size of the firm, the assets tangibility and the growth opportunities have a relevant but differential effect across the different institutional systems. Consequently, our results suggest that the legal and institutional system of each country does not only affect firms' capital structure but also creates the conditions to explain a differential effect of the common determinants of firms' financial choices.

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  • Felix Lopez-Iturriaga & Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Sanz, 2008. "Capital structure and institutional setting: a decompositional and international analysis," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(14), pages 1851-1864.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:40:y:2008:i:14:p:1851-1864
    DOI: 10.1080/00036840600905233
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    1. Ralf Sabiwalsky, 2008. "Nonlinear Modeling of Target Leverage with Latent Determinant Variables – New Evidence on the Trade-off Theory," SFB 649 Discussion Papers SFB649DP2008-062, Sonderforschungsbereich 649, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
    2. Maurizio La Rocca & Tiziana La Rocca & Alfio Cariola, 2011. "Capital Structure Decisions During a Firm's Life Cycle," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 37(1), pages 107-130, July.
    3. Fałat-Kilijańska Ilona & Gláserová Jana & Luty Piotr & Otavová Milena, 2020. "Determinants of the Financing Structure of the Acquiring Companies in the Pre-Merger Period. Results of the Research," Financial Sciences. Nauki o Finansach, Sciendo, vol. 25(4), pages 16-42, December.
    4. Ibrahimo, M.V. & Barros, C.P., 2009. "Relevance or irrelevance of capital structure?," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 26(2), pages 473-479, March.
    5. Edgardo Bucciarelli & Nicola Mattoscio, 2021. "Reconsidering Herbert A. Simon’s Major Themes in Economics: Towards an Experimentally Grounded Capital Structure Theory Drawing from His Methodological Conjectures," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 57(3), pages 799-823, March.
    6. Sabiwalsky, Ralf, 2010. "Nonlinear modelling of target leverage with latent determinant variables -- new evidence on the trade-off theory," Review of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(4), pages 137-150, October.
    7. Víctor M. González & Francisco González, 2011. "Firm size and capital structure: Evidence using dynamic panel data," Post-Print hal-00730234, HAL.

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