Capital structure choice and financial market liberalization: evidence from New Zealand

Glenn Boyle () and Kelly Eckhold

Applied Financial Economics, 1997, vol. 7, issue 4, 427-437

Abstract: The extensive 1980's deregulation of New Zealand financial markets is exploited to provide a unique test of capital structure theory. Specifically, debt choices of New Zealand corporate firms during pre-reform (1982-1985) and post-reform (1986-1989) periods are analysed and compared. However, consistent with evidence from other countries, existing hypotheses are able to explain relatively little of the cross-sectional variation in either long- or short-term debt usage. More significantly, this lack of explanatory power is consistent across pre- and post-reform periods.

Date: 1997
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