How and When Do Firms Adjust Their Capital Structures toward Targets?

Soku Byoun

Journal of Finance, 2008, vol. 63, issue 6, 3069-3096

Abstract: If firms adjust their capital structures toward targets, and if there are adverse selection costs associated with asymmetric information, how and when do firms adjust their capital structures? We suggest a financing needs‐induced adjustment framework to examine the dynamic process by which firms adjust their capital structures. We find that most adjustments occur when firms have above‐target (below‐target) debt with a financial surplus (deficit). These results suggest that firms move toward the target capital structure when they face a financial deficit/surplus—but not in the manner hypothesized by the traditional pecking order theory.

Date: 2008
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