Financial Structure of Farm Businesses under Imperfect Capital Markets

Peter J. Barry, Ralph W. Bierlen and Narda L. Sotomayor

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2000, vol. 82, issue 4, 920-933

Abstract: Recent finance studies have considered whether gaps between a firm's costs of internal and external sources of investment funds, arising from capital market imperfections, influence its investment behavior and funding preferences. This study tests the applicability of the pecking order and partial adjustment theories of financial structure to farm businesses by fitting a set of simultaneous financial equations with farm panel data from Illinois. Model results indicate that Illinois farms adjust to long-run financial targets for equity, debt, and leasing, but that additional financing needs follow a pecking order that is stronger for farms with greater asymmetric information problems Copyright 2000, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2000
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