Financial structure and bank relationships of Italian multinational firms

IF 2.9 3区 经济学 Q2 BUSINESS, FINANCE Journal of Multinational Financial Management Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.mulfin.2022.100762
Raffaello Bronzini , Alessio D’Ignazio , Davide Revelli
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This paper examines the financial structure and bank relationships of multinational firms in Italy, a large European country strongly reliant on bank debt. We show that multinationals are, on average, more leveraged than non-internationalized companies. Moreover, multinationals have larger shares of both financial debt and bank debt as a percentage of total debt, benefit from lower interest rates, maintain more bank relationships, and are less dependent on the primary bank for the firm. Overall, these findings suggest that globally diversified firms have better access to credit markets than domestic companies. These results are robust to estimation methods that address the potential endogeneity of the choice to go international, such as matching and instrumental variable estimation.

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4.80%
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25
审稿时长
30 days
期刊介绍: International trade, financing and investments have grown at an extremely rapid pace in recent years, and the operations of corporations have become increasingly multinationalized. Corporate executives buying and selling goods and services, and making financing and investment decisions across national boundaries, have developed policies and procedures for managing cash flows denominated in foreign currencies. These policies and procedures, and the related managerial actions of executives, change as new relevant information becomes available. The purpose of the Journal of Multinational Financial Management is to publish rigorous, original articles dealing with the management of the multinational enterprise. Theoretical, conceptual, and empirical papers providing meaningful insights into the subject areas will be considered. The following topic areas, although not exhaustive, are representative of the coverage in this Journal. • Foreign exchange risk management • International capital budgeting • Forecasting exchange rates • Foreign direct investment • Hedging strategies • Cost of capital • Managing transaction exposure • Political risk assessment • International working capital management • International financial planning • International tax management • International diversification • Transfer pricing strategies • International liability management • International mergers.
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