Does Media Attention Lower Debt Financing? International Evidence

Man Dang (), Viet Anh Hoang, Khoi Nguyen Tran, Darren Henry and Xuan Vinh Vo

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2022, vol. 58, issue 5, 1233-1261

Abstract: This article examines the association between media attention and debt financing through a number of channels associated with information asymmetry reduction and whether this relationship changes with cross-country institutional environment characteristics. Focusing on a comprehensive international dataset, we find that overall media coverage is negatively related to firm leverage levels. Media-focused variables directly associated with information asymmetry levels, including press-initiated news, non-financial news, and the extent of positive news sentiment, are also negatively related to firm leverage ratios. Furthermore, the country-level institutional environment provided a substituting rather than legitimizing influence on the relationship between media news coverage and firm financing decision-making.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2020.1861936

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