Naranjo, Patricia L.
[VerfasserIn]
;
Saavedra, Daniel
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Verdi, Rodrigo S.
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Anmerkungen:
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Beschreibung:
We use the staggered introduction of a major financial reporting regulation worldwide to study whether firms make financing decisions consistent with the pecking order theory. Exploiting cross-country and within country-year variation, we document that treated firms increase their issuance of external financing (and ultimately increase investment) after the new regime. Further, firms make different leverage decisions (debt vs. equity) around the new regulation depending on their ex-ante debt capacity, which allows them to adjust their capital structure. Our findings highlight the importance of the pecking order theory in explaining financing as well as investment policies