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The determinants of corporate debt ownership structure: Evidence from market‐based and bank‐based economies (2008)
Journal Article
Antoniou, A., Guney, Y., & Paudyal, K. (2008). The determinants of corporate debt ownership structure: Evidence from market‐based and bank‐based economies. Managerial Finance, 34(12), 821-847. https://doi.org/10.1108/03074350810915806

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the determinants of choice between private and public debt for British and German listed companies. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on three strands of theories: the “liquidation and renegoti... Read More about The determinants of corporate debt ownership structure: Evidence from market‐based and bank‐based economies.

The Determinants of Capital Structure: Capital Market-Oriented versus Bank-Oriented Institutions (2008)
Journal Article
Antoniou, A., Guney, Y., & Paudyal, K. (2008). The Determinants of Capital Structure: Capital Market-Oriented versus Bank-Oriented Institutions. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 43(1), 59-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022109000002751

The paper investigates how firms operating in capital market-oriented economies (the U.K. and the U.S.) and bank-oriented economies (France, Germany, and Japan) determine their capital structure. Using panel data and a two-step system-GMM procedure,... Read More about The Determinants of Capital Structure: Capital Market-Oriented versus Bank-Oriented Institutions.

Debt maturity structure of Chinese companies (2007)
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Cai, K., Fairchild, R., & Guney, Y. (2008). Debt maturity structure of Chinese companies. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 16(3), 268-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pacfin.2007.06.001

Numerous studies have focused on the theoretical and empirical aspects of corporate capital structure since the 1960s. As a new branch of capital structure, however, debt maturity structure has not yet received as much attention as the debt-equity ch... Read More about Debt maturity structure of Chinese companies.

International evidence on the non-linear impact of leverage on corporate cash holdings (2006)
Journal Article
Guney, Y., Ozkan, A., & Ozkan, N. (2007). International evidence on the non-linear impact of leverage on corporate cash holdings. Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 17(1), 45-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mulfin.2006.03.003

This paper investigates cash holding behaviour of firms from France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US using data for 4069 companies over the period 1996–2000. Our focus is particularly on the relation between cash holdings and leverage. We argue tha... Read More about International evidence on the non-linear impact of leverage on corporate cash holdings.

New insights on the importance of agency costs for corporate debt maturity decisions (2005)
Journal Article
Guney, Y., & Ozkan, A. (2005). New insights on the importance of agency costs for corporate debt maturity decisions. Applied financial economics letters, 1(4), 233-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/17446540500117610

This study provides new insights on the relationship between corporate debt maturity and agency costs by investigating empirically the impact of managerial ownership and the divergence between control and cash-flow rights on debt maturity. A signific... Read More about New insights on the importance of agency costs for corporate debt maturity decisions.