The Pecking Order and Financing Decisions: Evidence From Changes to Financial-Reporting Regulation
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Author(s)
Naranjo, Patricia
Saavedra, Daniel
Verdi, Rodrigo
Date Issued
July 2020
Journal
Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance
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SAGE Publications
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Naranjo, Patricia et al. "The Pecking Order and Financing Decisions: Evidence From Changes to Financial-Reporting Regulation." Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance: dx.doi.org/10.1177/0148558x20945066 © 2020 The Author(s)
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Abstract
We use the staggered introduction of a major financial-reporting regulation worldwide to study whether firms make financing decisions consistent with the pecking order theory. Exploiting cross-country and within country-year variation, we document that treated firms increase their issuance of external financing (and ultimately increase investment) after the new regime. Furthermore, firms make different leverage decisions (debt vs equity) around the new regulation depending on their ex-ante debt capacity, which allows them to adjust their capital structure. Our findings highlight the importance of the pecking order theory in explaining financing as well as investment policies.
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Sloan School of Management
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