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Corporate Leverage in EMEs: Has the Global Financial Crisis Changed the Determinants?

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  • Snehal S. Herwadkar

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Has the global financial crisis changed the pivotal determinants of corporate leverage in EMEs? This paper attempts to address this issue using a panel-GMM framework and quantile-analysis for 10 major EMEs. Analysing 19-year database covering the period 1996-2014, the study finds that enabling conditions in the financial markets in the post-crisis period facilitated higher corporate leverage notwithstanding slower growth, which is in contrast to its largely pro-cyclical behaviour. Furthermore, the results suggest that global factors like world GDP growth and Fed shadow rate assumed centre stage while some of the traditional drivers like domestic growth and firm-specific factors faded away as determinants of corporate leverage in the post-crisis period. These findings evince policy concerns, as the former set is exogenously determined depriving the EMEs of their conventional endogenous domestic set of policy levers.

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  • Snehal S. Herwadkar, 2017. "Corporate Leverage in EMEs: Has the Global Financial Crisis Changed the Determinants?," Working Papers id:11985, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:11985
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    1. Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli & Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad & Tressel, Thierry, 2020. "The global financial crisis and the capital structure of firms: Was the impact more severe among SMEs and non-listed firms?," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 60(C).
    2. Biswajit Banerjee & Jelena Ćirjaković, 2021. "Firm Indebtedness, Deleveraging, and Exit: The Experience of Slovenia during the Financial Crisis, 2008–2014," Eastern European Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 59(6), pages 537-570, November.
    3. M. Tiunova G. & М. Тиунова Г., 2018. "Влияние Внешних Шоков На Российскую Экономику // The Impact Of External Shocks On The Russian Economy," Финансы: теория и практика/Finance: Theory and Practice // Finance: Theory and Practice, ФГОБУВО Финансовый университет при Правительстве Российской Федерации // Financial University under The Government of Russian Federation, vol. 22(4), pages 146-170.

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