Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/37447
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Financial Integration and Investment Decisions No. D9-V3
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We analyze the life-cycle patterns of a firm's financing decisions and their interaction with future growth and development decisions. The framework derives three different financing sequences (debt-debt, equity-debt, equity-equity financing) which we link to existing empirical research. Furthermore, by adopting a life-cycle approach we are able to go one step beyond existing empirical research and derive testable hypotheses with respect to differences in the financing decisions of firms due to project, firm, market and country characteristics as well as the impact of a possible lack of start-up financing possibilities on firm dynamics.
Subjects: 
financing decisions
life-cycle
firm growth
path-dependencies
JEL: 
D92
G32
G31
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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