Capital Structure Choice in BRIC and Eastern European Companies: Empirical Analysis

Abstract

Author: Kokoreva Maria Sergeevna - assistant professor, lecturer, HSE Higher School of Economics, deputy head of the school of finance, researcher of the scientific and educational laboratory of corporate finance, director of the joint educational program for the preparation of bachelors in the direction of "Economics" USU and HSE. E-mail: maria_kokoreva@mail.ru.

The paper presents the results of dynamic trade-off empirical testing on the data of BRIC and Eastern European companies. On the sample of 403 large public companies within 2002-2010 financial years the relevance of dynamic trade-off theory was revealed. Moreover it was found out that market timing and pecking order motives influence the debt-to-equity choice through its effect on speed of adjustment while agency and behavioral factors are significant in target debt level specification.