 Financing strategically: The moderation effect of marketing activities on the bifurcated relationship between debt level and firm valuation of small and medium enterprisesSang-Joon Kim, John Bae and Hannah Oh The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2019, vol. 48, issue C, 663-681 Abstract: This study argues that debt can be strategically issued by governing its interpretations from investors. In particular, we pay attention to the signaling aspects of debt financing, and conjecture that firms purposefully determine the level of debt issuance, which can affect firm valuation. Also, we argue that the bifurcated or diverged roles of debt are moderated by marketing activities, as a way to treat the stakeholders’ evaluation of the firm. This idea is empirically examined in a population of SMEs (Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises) in the U.S. stock market. Using a sample of 2174 U.S. public firms ranging from 1982 to 2010, we find resource-independent debt (called idiosyncratic debt) has diverged impacts on firm valuation and the marketing moderation of such relationship is also bifurcated. Keywords: Debt; Firm value; Marketing activities; Signal (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:eee:ecofin:v:48:y:2019:i:c:p:663-681 DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2018.08.008 Access Statistics for this article The North American Journal of Economics and Finance is currently edited by Hamid Beladi More articles in The North American Journal of Economics and Finance from Elsevier |
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