{"title":"Local institutional investors and debt maturity","authors":"Qin (Emma) Wang , Jun Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.finmar.2022.100758","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We examine the relation between the geographic proximity of institutional investors and debt maturity. We hypothesize and find that firms with more or closer local institutional investors have shorter maturity debt. Analyses based on new debt issues and using SOX as a natural experiment and firm headquarter relocations as exogenous shocks indicate a causal effect of local institutional monitoring on debt maturity. Tests of the underlying mechanism suggest that firms monitored by local institutional investors choose shorter maturity debt to reduce debt and equity agency costs. The results demonstrate that local institutional investors affect firms’ debt maturity choices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Financial Markets","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 100758"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Financial Markets","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386418122000507","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We examine the relation between the geographic proximity of institutional investors and debt maturity. We hypothesize and find that firms with more or closer local institutional investors have shorter maturity debt. Analyses based on new debt issues and using SOX as a natural experiment and firm headquarter relocations as exogenous shocks indicate a causal effect of local institutional monitoring on debt maturity. Tests of the underlying mechanism suggest that firms monitored by local institutional investors choose shorter maturity debt to reduce debt and equity agency costs. The results demonstrate that local institutional investors affect firms’ debt maturity choices.
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The Journal of Financial Markets publishes high quality original research on applied and theoretical issues related to securities trading and pricing. Area of coverage includes the analysis and design of trading mechanisms, optimal order placement strategies, the role of information in securities markets, financial intermediation as it relates to securities investments - for example, the structure of brokerage and mutual fund industries, and analyses of short and long run horizon price behaviour. The journal strives to maintain a balance between theoretical and empirical work, and aims to provide prompt and constructive reviews to paper submitters.
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