The corporate choice between public debt, bank loans, traditional private debt placements, and 144A debt issues

被引：29
作者：
Arena M.P. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Department of Finance, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
来源：
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting | 2011年 / 36卷 / 3期
关键词：
144A debt; Bank loans; Capital structure; Private debt; Public debt;
D O I：
10.1007/s11156-010-0182-3
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摘要：
The main purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of the corporate choice between different forms of debt financing. By analyzing the most comprehensive sample of US corporate debt issues to date, I find that firms that issue 144A debt have significantly lower credit quality and higher information asymmetry than firms that issue traditional non-bank private debt. Further, the study shows that traditional private placements, rather than bank loans, are the favorite private debt source for firms with good credit quality. I also show that the firm characteristics of traditional private debt issuers have significantly changed after 1990 through to 2003. My results suggest the following pecking order of debt choices which is conditional on credit quality. In other words, high credit quality firms prefer public bond offerings and small firms, with good credit quality, are more likely to issue traditional private debt. A large group of firms characterized by moderate credit quality make extensive use of bank loans and poor credit quality firms preferentially issue 144A debt. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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