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Farhat, Joseph Basheer.

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Essays on the dynamics of capital structure.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays on the dynamics of capital structure./
Author:	Farhat, Joseph Basheer.
Description:	104 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3407.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-09A.
Subject:	Economics, Finance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3106818

Essays on the dynamics of capital structure.
Farhat, Joseph Basheer.

Essays on the dynamics of capital structure. - 104 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3407.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Orleans, 2003.

Tests of the static trade-off theory that posits that firms move towards the optimum capital structure necessitate a joint hypothesis test—whether firms adjust toward target leverage, and whether the proxy used for target leverage is the true target leverage. Prior studies use the time-series mean leverage for each firm, the industry median leverage, an estimated cross-sectional leverage, and a tobit estimated leverage using the factors suggested by the static trade-off theory as proxies for the target leverage. In this dissertation, I examine whether these proxies are equivalent and test the consistency of the proxies with the theorized behavior of the true target leverage.Subjects--Topical Terms:

626650
Economics, Finance.

Essays on the dynamics of capital structure.
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520 $a Tests of the static trade-off theory that posits that firms move towards the optimum capital structure necessitate a joint hypothesis test—whether firms adjust toward target leverage, and whether the proxy used for target leverage is the true target leverage. Prior studies use the time-series mean leverage for each firm, the industry median leverage, an estimated cross-sectional leverage, and a tobit estimated leverage using the factors suggested by the static trade-off theory as proxies for the target leverage. In this dissertation, I examine whether these proxies are equivalent and test the consistency of the proxies with the theorized behavior of the true target leverage.
520 $a My results indicate that the four proxies we examine have significantly different distributions and this holds across most industries. Further, the industry median leverage is the proxy which best exhibits behavior consistent with the true target leverage. Firm value is higher for firms closer to the industry median and lower for firms away from the industry median. A robustness check using K-means cluster analysis confirms the superiority of the industry median leverage over the other proxies of target leverage.
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