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Shocks to the cost of borrowing and capital structure

Cuñat, Vicente ORCID: 0000-0001-7504-2801 and Gonzalez-Iturriaga, Claudio (2005) Shocks to the cost of borrowing and capital structure. . Department of Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. (Submitted)

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Abstract

We use the imposition of a non remunerated reserve on short term borrowing in Chile in 1991 as a cuasi natural experiment to test the effects of an increase in the cost of short term borrowing on capital structure and investment. The differential impact of this regulatory measure across firms allows us to perform a difference in differences analysis. We find a drastic drop in short term borrowing of regulated firms that was almost completely offset by additional long term borrowing. The nature of the experiment allows us to isolate a clear causality from changes in the cost of funds to capital structure, solving some of the endogeneity problems present in preexisting literature.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Official URL: http://www.vicentecunat.com/encaje140705.pdf
Additional Information: © 2005 The Authors
Divisions: Finance
Management
Financial Markets Group
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Date Deposited: 17 Apr 2012 14:18
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2024 18:43
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/43165

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