报告文献题目：Cash flows and leverage adjustments

报告人：张超 博士

现代会计研究所副所长   中山大学财务学博士

时间：2012年5月23日（星期三）18:30—21:00

地点：综合楼802会议室

参加者：学院青年博士老师为主体、院在读研究生为辅。欢迎其他老师和同学参加。

内容提要：Recent research has emphasized the impact of transaction costs on firm leverage adjustments. We recognize that cashflow realizations can provide opportunities to adjust leverage at relatively low marginal cost. We find that a firm’s cashflow features affect not only the leverage target, but also the speed of adjustment toward that target. Heterogeneity in adjustment speeds is driven by an economically meaningful concept: adjustment costs. Accounting for this fact produces adjustment speeds that are significantly faster than previously estimated in the literature. We also analyze how both financial constraints and market timing variables affect adjustments toward a leverage target.