• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
• /
• 제8권5호
• /
• pp.551-559
• /
• 2021

The maturity structure of corporate debt is one of the significant financing choices that a firm must make simultaneously while deciding how to finance its operational and investment decisions. Even though the capital structure is one of the scrutinized topics of interest in the corporate finance literature, scarce studies have investigated corporate debt maturity, even less so in the context of emerging markets. The choice of a suitable debt maturity structure is exceptionally relevant for firms. It can enable them to avoid mismatch by aligning assets in line with liabilities, addressing agency-related problems, sidestep the ill effects of cost of capital, and signaling the firms' earning quality and value. The study investigates the firm-specific and macroeconomic determinants significant for the debt maturity structure of Vietnamese corporate firms. A sample of 722 non-financial firms listed on the Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi Stock Exchange in Vietnam from 2007 to 2018 was taken to test the hypothesis. The study's methods fixed effects panel data analysis provides empirical evidence that firm size, firms' quality, liquidity, leverage, asset maturity, tax impact, and macro variables are significantly related to the debt maturity structure.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
• /
• 제9권5호
• /
• pp.355-363
• /
• 2022

The debt maturity structure has a significant impact on a company's financial situation. Any debt maturity structure decisions substantially impact investment decisions due to changes in capital cost and dividend decisions due to cash flow consequences. This study used the system generalized method of moment (Sys-GMM) to investigate the debt maturity structure of real estate companies listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) in the duration from 2008 to 20019. It found that the firm size, liquidity, and tangible assets affected the decision on debt maturity structure. The tangible asset had the most significant impact on the possibility for companies to access long-term loans. This finding revealed that the majority of the real estate companies listed on HOSE borrowed money from banks. Such decisions are most likely affected by the collateral. Another finding of the study is that financial institutions had a major impact on loan maturity structure, whereas the effects of the financial market were negligible. Besides, the real estate companies listed on HOSE seemed not to pay attention to changes in inflation, economic growth, and institutional qualities when deciding on the debt maturity structure.

• 유통과학연구
• /
• 제13권9호
• /
• pp.47-57
• /
• 2015

Purpose - The aim of this paper is to investigate the explanatory power of the Pecking-order theory (the cost of financing increases with asymmetric information) among Korean retail firms from the perspective of debt capacity. According to the Pecking-order theory, a firm's first preference is to use internal funds for its capital needs, its next preference is the issuance of debt, and its last preference is the issuance of equity; this is due to the information asymmetry problem between existing shareholders and investors. However, prior empirical studies, such as Lemmon and Zender (2010), argue that the entire sample test for the Pecking-order theory could be misleading due to the different levels of debt issuance capability of each of the individual firms; in fact, they confirm that the explanatory power of the Pecking-order theory improves after taking into account the differences in debt capacity of the U.S. firms they examined. This paper implements a case study approach among Korean retail firms to examine the relationship between debt capacity and the explanatory power of the Pecking-order theory in Korea. Research design, data, and methodology - This study uses the sample of public retail firms on the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) from the time period of 1990 to 2013. We gather related financial and accounting statements from the financial information firm WISEfn. Credit rating information is provided by the Korea Investor Service. We employ the models of Lemmon and Zender (2010) and Son and Kim (2013) to measure a firm's debt capacity. Their logit models use the rating dummy variable as a dependent variable and incorporate other firm characteristics as independent variables to estimate debt capacity. To test the Pecking-order theory, we adopt variants of the financing deficit model of Shyam-Sunder and Myers (1999). In the test of the Pecking-order theory, we consider all of the changes in total debt obligations, current debt obligations, and long-term debt obligations. Results - Our main contribution to the literature is our confirmation of the predicted relationship between debt capacity and the explanatory power of the Pecking-order theory among Korean retail firms. The coefficients on financing deficits become greater as a firm's debt capacity improves. This is consistent with the results of Lemmon and Zender (2010). The coefficients on the square of the financing deficits are also negative for the firms in the largest debt capacity group, which is also consistent with the predictions in prior literature. Conclusions - This study takes a case study approach by examining Korean retail firms. We confirm that the Pecking-order theory explains the capital structure of retail firms more appropriately, after taking into account the debt capacity of each firm. This result suggests the importance of debt capacity consideration in the testing of the Pecking-order theory. Our result also implies that there has been a potential underestimation of the explanatory power of the Pecking-order theory in existing studies.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
• /
• 제15권4호
• /
• pp.920-930
• /
• 2019

To figure out the impact of debt financing on the profits of industrial enterprises, it starts with calculating the first differences against the logarithms of the cost profit ratios and the debt asset ratios of Chinese industrial enterprises during 179 months from 2002 to 2016; next, it runs the cointegration test and afterwards the regression test to analyze the obtained first differences, and still next uses the Simulink software to get the regularity of those changes. It finds out that there is not only a long-term stable relationship between the enterprises' profits and debts, but also a steady time series trend within a short term. The profit rate positively correlates to the debt asset ratio, and profit for the current term positively correlates to the profit for the previous term. It indicates that properly raised debts can help increase the profit rate of the industrial enterprises, and a higher previous profit level can help improve the current profit level.

• 지식경영연구
• /
• 제6권1호
• /
• pp.19-32
• /
• 2005

The reliability of technology valuation depends on, among other things, the reliability of the discount rate estimate. The weighted average cost of capital, generally accepted as discount rate, consists of cost of equity and cost of debt. The model used to estimate the cost of equity for publicly traded firms can not be used directly for small-sized venture firms. In addition, the estimation of cost of debt become very difficult, given the limited and volatile price history, because these small-sized venture firms do not have associated credit ratings. Since two kinds of cost of capital for the small-sized venture firms can not be estimated directly from market data, this study suggests statistical frame works for estimating unknown two kinds of cost of capital. The estimates of underlying cost of capital will help determine the size of appropriate discount rate with logical and scientific way when the technology valuation for small-sized venture firms is made. This study also suggests the necessity of the risk premium for the technology competitiveness to improve the estimation of the appropriate discount rate for small-sized venture firms.

• 상하수도학회지
• /
• 제23권5호
• /
• pp.637-645
• /
• 2009

To understand the financial situation of waterworks, the revenue and operation cost from 1996 have been analyzed. The budget of waterworks was 3,775 billion won in 1996 and grew up to 5,774 billion won in 2007. The budget has grown about 1.53 times during 11 years. Based on 2007, total cost for supplying water, rehabilitating old facilities and returning debt and its interest was 4146 billion won. The cost was recovered by 2,825 billion won of water revenue, 827 billion won of various fees revenue, 571 billion won of financial grant and 89 billion won of loan. Until 2007, the 15.3% of operation cost for waterworks was covered by government grant and loan. The renovation cost for old non-efficient facilities was 1,356 billion won in 1996 and was 1,486 billion won in 2007. The renovation cost was not increased remarkably during 10 years. Since the total operation cost was increased about 1.5 times, the percentage for renovating old facilities was decreased from 36% to 25.7%. This trend need to be alerted because the renovation has been slow down when the facilities for water supply need more rehabilitation.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
• /
• 제18권4호
• /
• pp.135-142
• /
• 2017

본 연구는 다른 산업에 비해 정부의 부채비율 정책에 민감하다고 할 수 있는 우리나라 농업법인의 적정부채비율 추정을 위하여 이론적으로 도출 가능한 분석적 수리모형을 수립하고 객관적인 자료를 이용하여 적정부채비율을 추론하는데 목적이 있다. 분석모형은 독립변수를 부채비율로 하는 자기자본순영업이익률 계산식으로부터 출발하고 관련 모수는 매출액 영업이익률, 총자산회전율, 순금융비용율로 구성된다. 이 가운데 순금융비용율의 경우 부채비율과 1차 선형 관계를 고려한 방정식을 분석모형에 추가하는 등의 분석적 절차에 따라 적정부채비율 기준을 자기자본순영업이익률을 극대화하는 부채비율 수준으로 정의하고, 이들 식으로부터 자기자본순영업이익률은 부채비율을 독립변수로 하는 2차함수로 나타낸다. 이러한 분석방법 및 절차에 의해 우리나라 농업법인의 14년 자료를 토대로 적정부채비율을 도출한 결과 약 138% 정도의 부채비율이 농업법인 전체의 자기자본순영업이익률을 제고하는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 그동안의 농업법인 부채비율이 적정부채비율에 비해 비교적 높게 형성되어 있음을 알 수 있는 결과로써 기업이 부채비율을 관리하는 목적이 안전성 유지, 수익성 확대 등에 있고, 부채비율 관리에서 중요한 것이 수치에 대한 일률적 판단이 아닌 해당 업종의 특성을 고려한 대응이라고 했을 때 향후 농업법인에 대한 당국의 정책적 변화가 뒤따라야 할 것으로 보인다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
• /
• The 1th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
• /
• pp.824-829
• /
• 2005

This paper focuses on construction cost volatility for the purpose of private sector investment by use of a financial model with key indices of IRR and DSCR (Debt Service Coverage Ratio). A case project, 1,000 MW pumped storage hydropower plant, has shown that its financial impacts by cost volatility of underground works are less measured than interest rates impacts by interest rate of loans. Probabilistic analysis of costs under geotechnical conditions has been made by Indicator Kriging method. And, in the modeling of interest rates, geometric Brownian motion has been applied. Both of these impacts are measured on the same financial model.

• 재무관리연구
• /
• 제22권1호
• /
• pp.1-36
• /
• 2005

본 연구에서는 자본구조 결정시 레버리지비율과 부채만기가 동시적으로 고려될 것이라는 가정하에 우리나라 기업에 대하여 이들의 결정요인을 연립방정식 체계하에서 2단계최소자승법에 의해 분석하였다. 이러한 분석 결과, 우리나라 기업에서 레버리지비율과 부채만기는 서로 양(+)의 상관관계에 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이것은 레버리지가 높은 기업은 채무불이행위험에 직면할 가능성이 높으므로 이를 회피하기 위해 장기부채를 선호할 것이라는 Leland와 Toft(1996)의 주장과 일관성이 있다. 그러나 또 한편 이것은 주로 단기부채 위주로 자금이 공급되고 기업의 신용위험의 양극화 현상이 심한 우리나라 현실에서 대외적 신인도가 높고 신용위험이 낮은 기업일수록 부채사용이 많고 또 동시에 안정적인 장기차입이 용이한 현상을 반영한 것으로도 풀이된다. 그리고 부채만기의 결정요인으로는 앞의 선행 연구에서와 마찬가지로 대리인비용가설과 자산만기대응가설, 신호전달 및 유동성위험가설 등이 모두 대체적으로 지지되었으며, 레버리지 면에서는 주로 기업규모가 크고 채무불이행위험이 낮을수록 부채사용이 많은 것으로 분석되었다. 그러나 은행차입금 수준과 재벌의 소속 여부에 따라 표본을 구분해 본 결과, 재벌소속 기업보다는 비재벌기업에서 정보비대칭과 자금조달의 제약이 높을 것이라는 가설은 지지되었으나, OLS에 의해 동일한 분석을 시행한 기존의 연구와는 달리 은행차입이 낮은 기업에서 정보비대칭이나 대리인문제가 더 심각할 것이라는 가설을 지지하는 증거는 미약하였다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
• /
• 제7권7호
• /
• pp.105-112
• /
• 2020

The study investigates and measures the impact of capital structure, profitability and financial performance on the success of the business organization. Capital structure of the business organization refers to the proportion of external funds and internal funds, i.e., debt and equity. In Saudi Arabia, petrochemicals companies are working on equity, but financial performance reflects negative trend for the period 2004 to 2016. The research is based upon secondary data available on the websites of petrochemicals companies of Saudi Arabia. Financial Ratio variability analysis and Trend Indices of financial ratios (TI_CBI) measure and compare the financial variability and sensitivity of financial ratios of the business organization. Correlation between Trend Indices (TI_CBI) of independent variable and dependent variables are to be calculated to know the impact of changes in debt equity on other dependent variables. The results reveal the unexpected performance of petrochemicals companies due to under-utilization of the resources caused by low demand and lower prices of the products governed by some internal and external factors. The study finds that size, demand, cost of production, profitable streams of products, and low cost capital in external funds are the factors responsible for overall growth development of the petrochemicals industry of Saudi Arabia.