Caglayan, M. and Rashid, A. (2010) The Response of Firms' Leverage to Uncertainty: Evidence from UK Public versus Non-Public Firms. Working Paper. Department of Economics, University of Sheffield ISSN 1749-8368
Abstract
This paper empirically investigates the effects of uncertainty on firms' leverage. The analysis is carried out for a large panel of public and non-public UK manufacturing rms over 1999-2008. The empirical results provide evidence that firms use less short-term debt as they go through periods of high uncertainty. The leverage of non-public firms is more sensitive to idiosyncratic uncertainty in comparison to their public counterparts, yet macroeconomic uncertainty a ects both types of firms similarly. We finally end our investigation showing that the total impact of either type of uncertainty on firms' leverage is related to the amount of the cash buffer each firm carries.
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Keywords: | Cash holdings, Leverage, Public versus Non-public firms, Idiosyncratic versus Macroeconomic uncertainty, Spillover effects, System-GMM |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) > Sheffield Economics Research Papers Series |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC RES-000-22-2004 |
Depositing User: | Repository Officer |
Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2010 14:16 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2014 01:47 |
Published Version: | http://www.shef.ac.uk/economics/research/serps/yea... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Department of Economics, University of Sheffield |
Identification Number: | Sheffield Economic Research Paper Series 2010019 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:42606 |