Does financial flexibility enhance firm value? A comparative study between developed and emerging countries
This paper investigates the effect of financial flexibility on firm value, on a comparative basis between developed and emerging countries in Europe. Our dataset covers 4,334 companies from 15 developed and 1,436 companies from 6 emerging countries in Europe for the period between 2000 and 2016. Fir...
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| description | This paper investigates the effect of financial flexibility on firm value, on a comparative basis between developed and emerging countries in Europe. Our dataset covers 4,334 companies from 15 developed and 1,436 companies from 6 emerging countries in Europe for the period between 2000 and 2016. First, depending on companies’ maintenance of leverage that is below-predicted levels for a successive number of years, I identify the financially flexible companies in the sample. Second, I examine whether financial flexibility affects firm value. Our results demonstrate that firms’ financial flexibility positively contributes to firm value in all estimations. Furthermore, this study presents unprecedented evidence that the effect of financial flexibility on firm value is more significant for emerging countries when compared to developed countries in Europe. Moreover, I demonstrate for the first time that firm characteristics, including firm size and age, which proxy for asymmetric information within a company, negatively moderate the relationship between flexibility and firm value. Managers, both in developed and in emerging countries, who aim to surge their firm value up, should give importance to the maintenance of financial flexibility in their capital structure decisions. Last, managers of relatively smaller and younger companies should put more emphasis on becoming financially flexible if they want to improve their firms’ value. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-224aaea12454414abba6013306990a342024-02-03T05:55:41ZengVilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityBusiness: Theory and Practice1648-06271822-42022020-10-0121210.3846/btp.2020.12680Does financial flexibility enhance firm value? A comparative study between developed and emerging countriesSeda Bilyay-Erdogan0Department of International Trade and Finance, Faculty of Management, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, TurkeyThis paper investigates the effect of financial flexibility on firm value, on a comparative basis between developed and emerging countries in Europe. Our dataset covers 4,334 companies from 15 developed and 1,436 companies from 6 emerging countries in Europe for the period between 2000 and 2016. First, depending on companies’ maintenance of leverage that is below-predicted levels for a successive number of years, I identify the financially flexible companies in the sample. Second, I examine whether financial flexibility affects firm value. Our results demonstrate that firms’ financial flexibility positively contributes to firm value in all estimations. Furthermore, this study presents unprecedented evidence that the effect of financial flexibility on firm value is more significant for emerging countries when compared to developed countries in Europe. Moreover, I demonstrate for the first time that firm characteristics, including firm size and age, which proxy for asymmetric information within a company, negatively moderate the relationship between flexibility and firm value. Managers, both in developed and in emerging countries, who aim to surge their firm value up, should give importance to the maintenance of financial flexibility in their capital structure decisions. Last, managers of relatively smaller and younger companies should put more emphasis on becoming financially flexible if they want to improve their firms’ value.https://www.bjrbe.vgtu.lt/index.php/BTP/article/view/12680financial flexibilityfirm valueleverageemerging and developed countriesGMM |
| spellingShingle | Seda Bilyay-Erdogan Does financial flexibility enhance firm value? A comparative study between developed and emerging countries Business: Theory and Practice financial flexibility firm value leverage emerging and developed countries GMM |
| title | Does financial flexibility enhance firm value? A comparative study between developed and emerging countries |
| title_full | Does financial flexibility enhance firm value? A comparative study between developed and emerging countries |
| title_fullStr | Does financial flexibility enhance firm value? A comparative study between developed and emerging countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does financial flexibility enhance firm value? A comparative study between developed and emerging countries |
| title_short | Does financial flexibility enhance firm value? A comparative study between developed and emerging countries |
| title_sort | does financial flexibility enhance firm value a comparative study between developed and emerging countries |
| topic | financial flexibility firm value leverage emerging and developed countries GMM |
| url | https://www.bjrbe.vgtu.lt/index.php/BTP/article/view/12680 |
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