Investment in a constructed facility represents a cost in the short term that returns benefits only over the long term use of the facility. Thus, the costs occur earlier than the benefits, and the owners of facilities must obtain the capital resources to finance the costs of construction. A project cannot proceed without an adequate financing, and the cost of providing an adequate financing can...

This paper explains the relationship between the debt financing and market value from about 272 Chinese real estate companies, which are all from Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange between 2002 and 2007.We conduct an empirical study, the empirical results show that our country’s real estate listing of corporate debt financing relatively large proportion of total assets, average...

Empirical evidence documents a tight link between aggregate and firm-level investment and corporate credit spreads. Moreover, it has been shown that credit spreads largely reflect a compensation for bearing macroeconoimc risks. We use a tractable model with recursive preferences and time varying macroeoconomic risk to investigate the link between aggregate risk and corporate policies in a produ...

For a large number of companies from a cross-section of countries, we analyze how company corporate governance practices, country regulatory regimes and their interaction affect companies’ valuation. We confirm that practices are crucial for efficient company functioning and shareholder protection, and consequently positively impact valuation. We find little positive valuation impact from count...

I demonstrate that non-financial corporations act as cross-market arbitrageurs in their own securities. Firms use one type of security to replace another in response to shifts in relative valuations, inducing negatively-correlated financing flows in different markets. Net equity repurchases and net debt issuance both increase when the expected returns on debt are particularly low, or when the e...

We show that measurable managerial characteristics have significant explanatory power for corporate financing decisions. First, managers who believe that their firm is undervalued view external financing as overpriced, especially equity financing. Such overconfident managers use less external finance and, conditional on accessing external capital, issue less equity than their peers. Second, CEO...