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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2014.15.1.86

A Review on the Contemporary Changes of Capital Structures for the Firms belonging to the Korean Chaebols  

Kim, Hanjoon (Dept. of Business Administration, Hoseo University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.15, no.1, 2014 , pp. 86-98 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examined a long-standing issue with its perverse results in the Korean capital markets, such as any variant financial profiles over time, affecting capital structure for the firms belonging to the chaebols. It may be of interest to identify these components from the perspectives of international investors and domestic policy makers to implement their contingent strategies on the target leverage, since the U.S. financial turmoils in the late 2000s. Regarding the evidence from the three hypothesis tests on the firms in the chaebols, this research found that the control variabels measuring profitability, business risk, and non-debt tax shields, showed their statistically significant relationships with the different types of a debt ratio. While FCFF(free cash flow to the firm) showed its significant influence to discriminate between the firms in the chaebols and their counterparts, not belonging to the chaebols, BDRELY as the ratio of liabilities to total assets, comprising the enhanced 'Dupont' system, only showed its statistically significant effect on leverage in the context of the parametric and nonparametric tests. In line with the results obtained from the present research, one may expect that a firm in the Korean chaebol, may control or restructure its present level of capital structure to revert to its target optimal capital structure towards maximizing the shareholders' wealth.
Keywords
Financial Profile; Chaebol; Korean Capital Market; Panel Data Model; Probit Model; Dupont System;
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