Board of directors' quality and firms' debt financing: the moderating effect of insider ownership - evidence from Omani firms

Ahmed Sultan Bin-Sariman, Azwadi Ali and Mohd Nazli Mohd Nor

Applied Economics, 2016, vol. 48, issue 5, 402-410

Abstract: This study aims to examine the direct effects of board of directors' quality and insider ownership on firms' capital structure and the moderating effect of insider ownership on the relationship between board of directors' quality and firms' capital structure. The sample of this study consists of the time period 2005-2011. The final sample consists of 535 firm-year observations of public nonfinancial firms listed on the Muscat Securities Market (MSM). The hypotheses are tested using a random effects model. The results reveal that the coefficient sign on the board of directors' quality is as predicted, but the coefficient sign is insignificant. Further, the results show that insider ownership is positively associated with leverage at the significant level of 10%, suggesting that the inside substantial shareholders employ higher leverage. With regard to the moderating effect of insider ownership, the findings show that the effect of the board of directors' quality-leverage relationship becomes negative and stronger with increasing insider ownership.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1080804

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