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Globalization and Firms' Financing Choices : Evidence from Emerging Economies / Schmukler, Sergio
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications")- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Schmukler, Sergio
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banks and Banking Reform.
- Bond.
- Bond Markets.
- Debt.
- Debt Markets.
- Debt Maturity.
- Debt-Equity.
- Economic Development.
- Emerging Economies.
- Emerging Markets.
- Equity.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Financial Liberalization.
- Financial Markets.
- Financial Structure.
- Financial Systems.
- Globalization.
- International Bond.
- International Financial Markets.
- International Markets.
- Maturity Structure.
- Private Sector Development.
- Share.
- World Financial Markets.
- Local Subjects:
- Banks and Banking Reform.
- Bond.
- Bond Markets.
- Debt.
- Debt Markets.
- Debt Maturity.
- Debt-Equity.
- Economic Development.
- Emerging Economies.
- Emerging Markets.
- Equity.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Financial Liberalization.
- Financial Markets.
- Financial Structure.
- Financial Systems.
- Globalization.
- International Bond.
- International Financial Markets.
- International Markets.
- Maturity Structure.
- Private Sector Development.
- Share.
- World Financial Markets.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (74 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 1999
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- April 2000 - Debt-equity ratios do not tend to increase after financial liberalization, but there is a shift from long-term to short-term debt. Globalization has uneven effects for firms with and without access to international capital markets. Countries with deeper domestic financial markets are less affected by financial liberalization. Schmukler and Vesperoni investigate whether integration with global markets affects the financing choices of firms from East Asia and Latin America. Using firm-level data for the 1980s and 1990s, they study how leverage ratios, the structure of debt maturity, and sources of financing change when economies are liberalized and when firms gain access to international equity and bond markets. The evidence shows that integration with world financial markets has uneven effects. On the one hand, debt maturity for the average firm shortens when countries undertake financial liberalization. On the other hand, domestic firms that actually participate in international markets get better financing opportunities and extend their debt maturity. Moreover, firms in economies with deeper domestic financial systems are affected less by financial liberalization. Finally, they show that leverage ratios increase during times of crisis. In an appendix, they analyze the previously unstudied case of Argentina, which experienced sharp financial liberalization and was hit hard by all recent global crises. This paper - a product of Macroeconomics and Growth, Development Reseach Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to understand financial development and financial integration. The authors may be contacted at sschmukler@worldbank.org or vesperon@wam.umd.edu.
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