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Financial Reforms, Financial Openness, and Corporate Borrowing: International Evidence
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Author/Editor: |
Agca, Senay | Detragiache, Enrica | De Nicoló, Gianni |
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July 1, 2007 |
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Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate.
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Summary: We study how credit market deregulation and increased international financial openness have changed corporate borrowing. The evidence comes from a large panel of publicly traded firms in 38 countries over the period 1994-2002. Reforms are measured with a comprehensive new index that tracks six separate dimensions. We find that these transformations have increased leverage and lengthened debt maturity in advanced economies, as expected, suggesting that in these countries corporate credit markets have become deeper. In emerging economies, the picture is more mixed: more international openness has led to more leverage but shorter debt maturity. Financial sector reforms have reduced leverage, while their effects on debt maturity have differed depending on the type of reform. Importantly, the differential impact of openness and reforms on the leverage and debt maturity of firms in advanced and emerging market countries also emerges when we distinguish between firms that are potentially financially constrained and firms that are not. These findings suggest that in emerging economies fundamental institutional weaknesses make it difficult to secure the benefits of international financial openness and domestic financial reforms.
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Working Paper No. 07/186 |
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Debt | International capital markets | Credit |
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Corporate leverage
| debt maturity
| financial reforms
| financial openness
| international financial markets
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July 1, 2007 |
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1934-7073 |
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WPIEA2007186 |
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47 |
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US$18.00 (Academic Rate: US$18.00)
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