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Business Definition for: Capital Structure
- the relative proportions of equity capital and debt capital in a company's balance sheet
Additional Resources
- Capital Structure Arbitrage Strategies: Models, Practice and Empirical Evidence
- Capital structure arbitrage strategies currently are the fastest growing sector in the hedge fund market and in proprietary trading departments in large banks. The objective of the thesis is the theoretical and practical background of capital structure arbitrage and hedging strategies, and the empirical evidence of key relationships applying these...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Optimal Capital Structure and the Market for Outside Finance in Commercial Real Estate
- When asked about optimal capital structure, the typical response from a commercial real estate investor is "go for it?use as much debt as possible." This answer, while not being necessarily incorrect, is not very informative. This paper seeks to articulate the economics underlying the market for outside finance in commercial...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Capital Structure & Payout Policy
- The capital structure of a company comprises of the permanent long-term financing of the company, including long-term debt, common stock, preferred stock, and retained earnings. Dividend is a taxable payment declared by a company's board of directors and given to its shareholders out of the company's current or retained earnings....
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Horses and Rabbits? Optimal Dynamic Capital Structure From Shareholder and Manager Perspectives
- This paper examines optimal capital structure choice using a dynamic capital structure model that is calibrated to reflect actual firm characteristics. The model uses contingent-claim methods to value interest tax shields, allows for reorganization in bankruptcy, and maintains a long-run target debt/equity ratio by refinancing maturing debt. Using this model...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- A Dynamic Model of Optimal Capital Structure.
- This article is about the business strategy that include capital structure. The motivation of this paper is to develop a unified dynamic model of the firm that can simultaneously incorporate a number of important variables that explain the capital structure choice and to quantify the economic importance of those variables...
- White papers 2003-03-03
- Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and Reinsurers
- This paper builds on Froot and Stein (1998) in developing a framework for analyzing the risk allocation, capital budgeting, and capital structure decisions facing insurers and reinsurers. The model incorporates three key features: value-maximizing insurers and reinsurers face product market as well as capital market imperfections that give rise to...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Capital Structure and Inventory Management
- A large literature examines the e?ects of a firm's mixture of debt and equity on its incentives to produce. For nearly 30 years, researchers have examined the consequences of splits between ownership and control agency models and the resulting diversity of claims on cash flow. A related stream of research...
- White papers 2005-08-05
- Optimal Capital Allocation Using RAROC and EVA
- This paper analyzes firms' capital allocation decisions when optimal capital structure is linked to the risk of underlying assets and when equity capital is costly and cannot be raised instantaneously. In the model, division managers receive private information and authority is delegated to them over risky project choices. The optimal...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Financial Institutions
- We develop a framework for analyzing the capital allocation and capital structure decisions facing financial institutions such as banks. Our model incorporates two key features: i) value-maximizing banks have a well-founded concern with risk management; and ii) not all the risks they face can be frictionlessly hedged in the capital...
- White papers 1997-03-17
- Is Firm's Productivity Related to Its Financial Structure?: Evidence From Microeconomic Data
- Firms undertaking innovative activities typically hold a larger share of immaterial assets and have a different capital structure. Differences in the propensity to innovate are likely to translate in different TFP levels. Data is used on a panel of firms to study the relationship between firms' capital structure and TFP....
- White papers 2005-04-27
- Managerial Incentives and the Efficiency of Capital Structure in U.S. Commercial Banking
- This paper focuses on the effects of managerial entrenchment, to consider how safety-net subsidies and financial distress costs interact with managerial incentives to influence capital structure in U.S. commercial banking. Using cross-sectional data on publicly traded, highest-level U.S. bank holding companies, the paper finds empirical evidence of Marcus' proposition (1984)...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Endogenous Economic Policy And The Structure Of Production: Theory And Evidence
- This paper develops and tests a model of electoral competition and campaign contributions. The standard model was extended to consider the implications for factor mobility and hence the structure of production. The model makes two main predictions. First, countries with more capital stock tend to implement more pro-capital policies. Second,...
- White papers 2003-09-23
- Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Financial Institutions: An Integrated Approach
- This white paper basically deals with developing a framework for analyzing the capital allocation and capital structure decisions facing financial institutions such as banks. The basic model incorporates two key features: value-maximizing banks have a well-founded concern with risk management; and not all the risks they face can be frictionless...
- White papers 2002-01-02
- Capital Structure Arbitrage: An Empirical Investigation Using Stocks and High Yield Bonds
- Capital structure arbitrage is one of the most recent hedge fund strategies that are rapidly gaining popularity amongst traders. This paper looks at the possibility of arbitraging mispricings between a company's high yield bond and stock. The argument behind the strategy is that the equity and debt markets quite often...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Institutions Risk Management, Capital Structure and Lending at Banks
- In this paper, we test how access to the loan sales market affects bank capital structure and lending decisions. Hedging activities in the form of derivatives trading and swap activities - activities that allow firms to manage their market risks - have been shown to influence firm performance and risk
- White papers 2001-10-01
- Capital Structure and Stock Returns
- U.S. corporations do not use their debt and equity issuing and repurchasing activities to counteract the mechanistic effects of stock returns on their debt equity ratios. Thus, over 1-5 year horizons, stock returns can explain about 40% of debt ratio dynamics. Although corporate net issuing activity is lively, and although...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Human Capital, Bankruptcy And Capital Structure
- We derive a firm's optimal capital structure and managerial compensation contract when employees are averse to bearing their own human capital risk, while equity holders can diversify this risk away. In the presence of corporate taxes, our model delivers optimal debt levels consistent with those observed in practice. It also...
- White papers 2006-12-05
- On The Capital-Structure Implications Of Bankruptcy Codes
- We develop a theoretical model that relates a firm's capital-structure choice to the bankruptcy code under which it operates. We show that optimal capital-structure choices depend on not only the bankruptcy code but also the firm's asset-specificity: firms with high asset-specificity will use a higher degree of leverage under an...
- White papers 2004-06-02
- Human Capital, The Structure Of Production, And Growth
- Do high levels of human capital foster economic growth by facilitating technology adoption? If so, countries with more human capital should have adopted more rapidly the skilled-labor augmenting technologies becoming available since the 1970's. High human capital levels should therefore have translated into fast growth in more compared to less...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Firm Size and Capital Structure
- Firm size has become such a routine to use as a control variable in empirical corporate finance studies that it receives little to no discussion in most research papers even though not uncommonly it is among the most significant variables. This paper's goal is to provide rationale for one of...
- White papers 2005-10-01
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