Essays on Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation

In the last essay, I study how liquidation values can affect the determination of debt maturity. I document the first empirical evidence supporting the claim that higher liquidation value can indeed decrease debt maturity. I document that maturity for cash lending, which provides cash usable at the borrower's discretion, decreases with liquidation value of a borrowing firm's total assets. On the other hand, the maturity for capital goods lending, which limits a debtor's ability to transform assets financed, decreases with industry-level market demand for fixed assets. These findings are consistent with the Myers and Rajan (1998)'s prediction that, when liquidation value is high, shortening debt maturity is optimal to avoid asset diversion against the creditors' interest.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Finance

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Han, Joong Ho

Contributors dc:contributor

• George Pennacchi

• Business Administration, Banking

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3199011

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87434