2014
DOI: 10.5539/ibr.v8n1p24
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IPO Market Timing and Capital Structure: Evidences from Brazil

Abstract: This article examines the occurrence of equity market timing through its effects on the capital structure of Brazilian companies that went public between 1997 and 2007. The results show the existence of equity market timing in the Brazilian stock market but its effects are not persistent in the long-run on the capital structure.

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“…However, regression tests indicate no long-run persistence of market timing effects for over 2 years. The paper also suggests that determinants like tangibility, liquidity, macroeconomic variable, and interest rates better explains the debt-to-equity ratio of public companies [13].…”
Section: Market Timing Theorymentioning
confidence: 85%
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“…However, regression tests indicate no long-run persistence of market timing effects for over 2 years. The paper also suggests that determinants like tangibility, liquidity, macroeconomic variable, and interest rates better explains the debt-to-equity ratio of public companies [13].…”
Section: Market Timing Theorymentioning
confidence: 85%
“…The paper recognizes that equity market timing exists in the region but finds that there are no permanent effects on capital structure. According to the paper, managers actively reduce the leverage levels of their companies at appropriate times in the market in an attempt to take advantage [13]. However, regression tests indicate no long-run persistence of market timing effects for over 2 years.…”
Section: Market Timing Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Hot market shows its market value is high and cold market shows its market value is considered low by the market. According to (14,15) that the firm's hot market has positive effect on equity issuance activity. Using a distributed-lag regression model, (3) shows that lagged market-to-book ratio has a positive effect on equity issuance.…”
Section: Equity Market Timing Is Used When Issuing Equitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From the start of the twenty-first century, Chinese stock markets and firms are following international practices and standards as also demanded by Chinese investors and regulators. Corporate governance and its relation with capital structure is the older concept, and literatures have established a positive, negative, or no relationship between corporate governance and leverage (Abraham et al 2015 ; Lee et al 2012 ; Lu-Andrews and Yu-Thompson 2015 ; Sharma 2015 ; Tsuruta 2015 ; Vallandro et al 2015 ; Yeh and Kuo 2015 ). In this study, researcher is trying to understand Chinese and American firms’ behavior with respect to corporate governance and capital structure decisions, and with that researcher is trying to identify the role of CSR in the previously mentioned relationship of corporate governance and capital structure.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%