Production Flexibility, Product Markets, and Capital Structure Decisions

Capital structure and product markets interactions: Evidence from business cycles

This paper provides firmand industry-level evidence on the effects of capital structure on product market outcomes for a large cross-section of industries over a number of years. The analysis uses shocks to aggregate demand as surrogates for exogenous changes in the product market environment. I find that debt financing has a negative impact on firm (relative-to-industry) sales growth in indust...

Resource Flexibility and Capital Structure

T paper examines how the optimal investment in the capacity of flexible and nonflexible resources is affected by financial leverage and, conversely, how a firm’s resource flexibility affects its optimal capital structure. We consider a two-product firm that invests in the optimal capacity of product-flexible and productdedicated resources in the presence of demand uncertainty. Before investing ...

Capital Structure Decisions

The present study is an attempt to find the relationship between capital structure and value of firm and to find the significance of differences in capital structures of different companies – inter and intra industry. Two hypothesis were framed and tested. bivariate correlation technique was used to find the nature of relationship between (i) capital structure and cost of capital, (ii) cost of ...

Accounting: Labor, Capital And Product Markets

Accounting practices differ across geographic and political boundaries, across sectors of the economy within these boundaries, and across types of organizations. Globalization exerts a homogenizing force across the political and jurisdictional boundaries with mixed consequences. The development of markets for various factors of production exerts a similar integrative force across sectors of the...

How Do Cfos Make Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Decisions?