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| Title: | | Short-term borrowing for long-term projects: Are family businesses more susceptible to 'irrational' financing choices?  |
| Authors: | | Peters, Bettina Westerheide, Peter |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 11-006 |
| Abstract: | | There are noticeable differences between the roles that various forms of credit financing play in family businesses and in other businesses. Family businesses take out more often bank loans specifically to finance investments and innovations, and they particularly often resort to the short-term and relatively expensive option of an overdraft. How can we explain these differences in financing choices? Do family businesses tend to use shorter-term, more expensive sources of financing because they face more restrictions than other or are there other motives such as financial independence at play? Our econometric approach to these issues is to study the financing behaviour and creditworthiness. For both of these aspects, we compare family businesses with non-family-run businesses that otherwise have the same characteristics. Our results do not confirm that family businesses are faced by stronger financial constraints but they indicate that family firms are prepared to accept higher financing costs in order to preserve their financial independence. |
| Subjects: | | Corporate financing innovation family businesses financing restrictions |
| JEL: | | G32 G31 M14 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-31291 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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