Role of Debt Maturity Structureon Firm Fixed Assets During Sudden Stop Episodes: Evidence From Thailand

Author/Editor:

Hanan Morsy ; Maria Pia Iannariello ; Akiko Terada-Hagiwara

Publication Date:

January 1, 2007

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper studies the detrimental effect of sudden stops on the growth of Thai firms' fixed assets. We focus on the fixed assets adjustment that firms undertake at times of financial constraints. We derive our results from balance sheet data for 284 nonfinancial Thai listed firms. Our data demonstrate that Thai firms faced severe declines in the growth of their fixed assets starting in 1996. Regression results demonstrate, after controlling for firms' characteristics and lagged dependent variables, that holding longer-term debt maturity structure is the factor that works in the firms' favor during sudden stop episodes, while it is their profitability that matters during tranquil periods.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2007/011

Subject:

Balance of payments Capital inflows Consumption Economic sectors Financial statements National accounts Public financial management (PFM) Sudden stops Transnational corporations

English

Publication Date:

January 1, 2007

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451865752/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA2007011

Pages:

27

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