Interactions between Corporate Governance, Bankruptcy Law and Firms Debt Financing: the Brazilian Case

This paper examines the relationship between corporate governance level and the bankruptcy law for such debt variables as firms’ cost of debt and amount (and variation) of debt. Our empirical results are consistent with the model's prediction. First, we find that the better the corporate govern...

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Main Authors: Bruno Funchal, Fernando Caio Galdi, Alexsandro Broedel Lopes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD) 2008-07-01
Series:BAR: Brazilian Administration Review
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Online Access:http://www.anpad.org.br/periodicos/arq_pdf/a_763.pdf