THE EFFECT OF BUSINESS RISK ON CORPORATE CAPITAL STRUCTURE - THEORY AND EVIDENCE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: KALE, JR; NOE, TH; RAMIREZ, GG
• 署名单位: State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF FINANCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1082
• DOI: 10.2307/2328569
• 发表日期: 1991
• 页码: 1693-1715
• 关键词: determinants; taxes; EXISTENCE; INFORMATION; leverage; STOCK; FIRMS; debt

摘要

Under corporate and personal taxation, we demonstrate that the relation between optimal debt level and business risk is roughly U-shaped. This result follows from the fact that the tax liability is an option portfolio that is long in the corporate tax option and short in the personal tax option. Therefore, the net effect of a change in business risk on the optimal debt level depends upon the relative magnitudes of the resultant marginal changes in the values of these two options. Results of empirical tests offer support for the predicted U-shaped relationship.