Financial constraints and the decision to lease : evidence from German SME
- The objective of this paper is to test the hypothesis that in particular financially constrained firms lease a higher share of their assets to mitigate problems of asymmetric information. The assumptions are tested under a GMM framework which simultaneously controls for endogeneity problems and firms' fixed effects. We find that the share of total annual lease expenses attributable to either finance or operating leases is considerably higher for smaller firms with higher average interest rates and high-growth firms - those likely to face higher agency-cost premiums on marginal financing. Furthermore, our results confirm the substitution of leasing and debt financing for lessee firms. However, we find no evidence that firms use leasing as an instrument to reduce their tax burdens. Keywords: Leasing, financial constraints, asymmetric information, GMM JEL Classifications: D23, D92, C23
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| Author: | Constantin F. SlottyGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-69913 |
| URL: | http://ssrn.com/abstract=1216582 |
| Parent Title (German): | 21st Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2008 Paper |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2009/09/11 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2009 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2009/09/11 |
| Tag: | GMM; Leasing; asymmetric information; financial constraints |
| Source: | 21st Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2008 Paper ; http://ssrn.com/abstract=1216582 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 218287917 |
| Institutes: | Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / House of Finance (HoF) |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
