Financing Investment: The Choice Between Bonds and Bank Loans

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Morellec, Erwan; Valta, Philip; Zhdanov, Alexei
• 署名单位: Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; Swiss Finance Institute (SFI); Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Geneva; University of Geneva; Panagora Asset Management
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2014.2005
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 2580-2602
• 关键词: debt choice; capital structure; INVESTMENT; Credit supply; COMPETITION

摘要

We build a model of investment and financing decisions to study the choice between bonds and bank loans in a firm's marginal financing decision and its effects on corporate investment. We show that firms with more growth options, with higher bargaining power in default, operating in more competitive product markets, or facing lower credit supply are more likely to issue bonds. We also demonstrate that, by changing the cost of financing, these characteristics affect the timing of investment. We test these predictions using a sample of U.S. firms and present new evidence that supports our theory.