Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324530 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Central European Economic Journal (CEEJ) [ISSN:] 2543-6821 [Volume:] 7 [Issue:] 54 [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 242-257
Publisher: 
Sciendo, Warsaw
Abstract: 
This paper investigates whether municipalities in Poland use their municipal companies to increase debt capacity beyond the limitations imposed by the fiscal debt rules. The article presents corporate governance and agency problems on the example of relations between local government units and affiliated companies. We review and link literature on corporate finance, in particular capital structure, and public finance - debt liabilities of municipalities. We analyse a sample of 2,019 observations of municipalities and their municipal companies using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method, where explanatory variables were taken from the public and corporate finance (leverage and its determinants). Results show that long-term debt of municipalities is positively associated with the leverage and size of municipal companies, but it is negatively related to their profitability.
Subjects: 
debt
municipal companies
municipalities
corporate governance
off-balance-sheet financing
JEL: 
G30
G32
C51
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Document Type: 
Article

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