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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2021.22.2.290

Corporate Interest Costs and Debt Financing  

Lee, Sang-Wook (Department of Business Administration, Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.22, no.2, 2021 , pp. 290-295 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper analyzed the relationship between corporate debt financing and interest costs using micro firm-level data. We also analyzed the differences in this relationship by the year of 2008 financial crisis. We did not find a negative relationship between corporate interest costs and debt financing. Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, we found a negative relationship between corporate interest costs and debt financing. However, following the 2008 financial crisis, we found a positive relationship between corporate interest costs and debt financing. The impacts of the decrease in corporate interest costs on the increase in corporate debt financing are not significant in the Korean economy. After the 2008 financial crisis, the decrease in corporate interest costs is followed by a decrease in corporate debt financing.
Keywords
Interest Costs; Debt Financing; Financial Crisis; Interest Rate; Costs Of Debt;
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