报告简介:
The speed of leverage adjustment matters for capital structure rebalancing. In this study, we show that exogenous labor policy shocks, particularly policies increasing firms’ firing costs, significantly accelerates the leverage adjustment speed. In general, the state-level adoption of such labor policies helps shorten the leverage rebalancing period (towards target leverage) by up to one fifth. We verify that the labor protection policies speed up the leverage adjustment via the channel of reducing financial distress costs. A closer examination reinforces that the policy effects exhibit only in more financially distressed and overleveraged firms, where the costs of leverage deviation, are high and, hence, the need for a speedy adjustment is more pressing.
(本讲座主要讨论杠杆调整速度对资本结构再平衡的影响。在研究中,作者发现外生的劳工政策冲击,特别是增加企业解雇成本的政策,显著加快了杠杆调整的速度。总体而言,国家层面推行的此类劳工政策有助于将杠杆调整周期(向目标杠杆调整)缩短五分之一。更具体地,该研究验证了劳工保护政策是通过降低财务困境成本的途径加快杠杆调整速度。但根据进一步地检验表明,该政策效应只在财务状况尤其糟糕而杠杆率过高的企业中表现出来,而在这些企业中,本身杠杆偏离的成本很高,因此其进行快速调整的需要更为紧迫。)
报告人简介:
赵怀南,英国杜伦大学金融学博士,现任英国拉夫堡大学金融学教授,金融与会计系系主任。曾担任英国克兰菲尔德大学管理学院公司金融学教授,诺丁汉大学商学院金融学副教授,伦敦金融城卡斯商学院及杜伦大学商学院金融学助理教授。赵怀南主要从事公司金融,金融市场,资产定价,公司治理,及公司兼并、收购、重组方面的教学与研究,其研究成果发表于Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, European Financial Management, Financial Review等国际一流期刊。
