Asymmetric information and liquidity constraints: A new test |
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Authors: | Dmytro Holod Joe Peek |
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Affiliation: | 1. College of Business, State University of New York – Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3775, USA;2. Finance Area, 437C Gatton Business and Economics Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0034, USA |
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Abstract: | Using a novel measure of the degree of information asymmetry across firms, this study shows that information-related financial market imperfections do matter for a firm’s access to external finance. Prior studies of the importance of liquidity constraints faced by nonfinancial firms have suffered from a glaring weakness. They have been based on a sample of publicly traded firms, omitting precisely those firms most likely to be liquidity constrained. Furthermore, they have tended to rely on indirect measures of the degree of information asymmetry, such as firm size. We overcome these limitations by focusing on the banking sector. Unlike the nonfinancial sector, the banking sector has balance sheet and income data available for all firms, whether or not they are publicly traded. This allows the use of a superior measure of the degree of information asymmetry across firms by distinguishing between publicly traded and non-publicly traded banks. |
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Keywords: | G21 G32 E52 |
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