거시경제상태가 자본구조의 조정속도에 미치는 영향 = The Effects of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Adjustment Speed of Capital Structure

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In this paper, we analyse empirically the effects of macroeconomic conditions on the adjustment speed of capital structure of firms listed on Korea Exchange. Macroeconomic conditions are classified into good states and bad ones on the basis of macroeconomic variables such as term spread, credit spread, and GDP growth rate. Good states are defined as higher term spread, lower credit spread, and higher GDP growth rate, and bad states are defined as the opposite sides of those macroeconomic variables. Moreover, firms are classified into the financially unconstrained firms and the financially constrained ones on the basis of financial constraints variables such as capital market accessibility and credit rating score level. The main results of this study can be summarized as follows. Using the partial adjustment capital structure models to estimate the effects of macroeconomic conditions on the adjustment speed of capital structure toward target leverage, we find evidence that firms adjust their leverage faster toward target leverage in good macroeconomic states than in bad ones. This holds whether or not firms are subject to financial constraints. So to speak, regardless of firms` capital market accessibility and credit rating score level, they exhibit a faster adjustment speed of capital structure in good macroeconomic states compared to bad ones.

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