The short-term debt choice under asymmetric information

Abstract This paper investigates whether the market level of information asymmetry affects firms’ debt financing decisions. Using a sample of non-financial listed firms and a composite index based on microstructure measures of information asymmetry, we find that firms with more information asymmetry...

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Main Authors: David Abad, Juan Pedro Sánchez-Ballesta, José Yagüe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-09-01
Series:SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13209-017-0160-2