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Graham Hall Patrick Hutchinson Nicos Michaelas 《International Journal of the Economics of Business》2000,7(3):297-312
This paper reports a study of 3500 unquoted, UK small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The objectives of the research were to test various hypotheses concerning the determinants of SME capital structure and to establish whether and how the relationship of these determinants to long- and short-term debt varied between industries. Long-term debt was found to be related positively to asset structure and company size and negatively to age; short-term debt was related negatively to profitability, asset structure, size and age and positively to growth. Significant variation across industries was found in most of the explanatory variables. The effect of growth on short-term debt, however, was consistent across industries whilst profitability had no effect on long-term borrowing in any industry. 相似文献
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Panikkos Poutziouris Francis Chittenden Nicos Michaelas Ray Oakey 《Small Business Economics》2000,14(1):11-36
This paper analyses a database of U.K. small companies in order to establish the profile of Technology Based Small Firms (TBSFs) in terms of their demography, financial structure and performance, and tax affairs. Following the evaluation of the impact of direct taxation on the high technology small companies, compared to that of their low technology counterparts, the paper briefly discusses the current policy debate about the nature and appropriateness of tax-based incentives for the development of this strategically important scale and type of enterprise. 相似文献
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Financial Policy and Capital Structure Choice in U.K. SMEs: Empirical Evidence from Company Panel Data 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Michaelas Nicos Chittenden Francis Poutziouris Panikkos 《Small Business Economics》1999,12(2):113-130
This article utilises up-to-date financial panel data, and investigates the capital structure of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the U.K. Different capital structure theories are reviewed in order to formulate testable propositions concerning the levels of debt in small businesses, and a number of regression models are developed to test the hypotheses.The results suggest that most of the determinants of capital structure presented by the theory of finance appear indeed to be relevant for the U.K. small business sector. Size, age, profitability, growth and future growth opportunities, operating risk, asset structure, stock turnover and net debtors all seem to have an effect on the level of both the short and long term debt in small firms. Furthermore, the paper provides evidence which suggest that the capital structure of small firms is time and industry dependent. The results indicate that time and industry specific effects influence the maturity structure of debt raised by SMEs. In general terms, average short term debt ratios in SMEs appear to be increasing during periods of economic recession and decrease as the economic conditions in the marketplace improve. On the other hand, average long term debt ratios exhibit a positive relationship with changes in economic growth. 相似文献
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Determinants of the Capital Structures of European SMEs 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Graham C. Hall† Patrick J. Hutchinson Nicos Michaelas 《Journal of Business Finance & Accounting》2004,31(5-6):711-728
The aim of this paper is to examine the degree to which the determinants of SMEs' capital structures differ between European countries. The study is based on data for four thousand SMEs, five hundred from each of eight European countries. Regressions were run using short‐term and long‐term debt as dependent variables and profitability, growth, asset structure, size and age as independent variables. A key feature of this paper is the use of restricted and unrestricted regressions to isolate the country‐effect from the firm‐specific‐effect. The results show that variations are likely to be due to country differences as well as firm‐specific ones. 相似文献
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