 External Financing, Growth and capital structure of the firms listed on the Athens ExchangePanayiotis Athanasoglou (), Ioannis Asimakopoulos and Costas Siriopoulos () Economic Bulletin, 2006, issue 26, 59-77 Abstract: The study focuses on Greek non-financial firms listed on the Athens Exchange in the period 1998-2002 and shows that only a small fraction of these firms were in a position to finance their growth by exclusively using internal resources with the findings varying depending on the firms’ size. For those firms that had to resort to external financing, short-term financing was favoured compared to long-term financing. While the need for short-term debt did not differ significantly between small and large firms, the need for additional long-term debt was clearly greater for large firms. As regards the determinants of capital structure (as measured by the total-debt-to-assets ratio), the effect of profitability is negative and statistically significant supporting the “pecking order” theory. As expected, tangible assets and firm size have a positive and statistically significant effect on the total debt-to-assets ratio, while short-term assets have the anticipated positive effect only on short-term external financing. Keywords: capital structure; Athens Exchange (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bog:econbl:y:2006:i:26:p:59-77 Access Statistics for this article Economic Bulletin is currently edited by Dimitris Malliaropulos More articles in Economic Bulletin from Bank of Greece Contact information at EDIRC. |
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