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Asia-Pacific Financial Markets
Published in: Asia-Pacific Financial Markets 2/2021

21-07-2020 | Original Research

Managerial Ability and External Financing

Authors: Min-Rui Choo, Chih-Wei Wang, Chi Yin, Jie-Lun Li

Published in: Asia-Pacific Financial Markets | Issue 2/2021

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Abstract

This research examines the link between managerial ability and firms’ external financing. Our findings show that firms with more able managers tend to mitigate information risk by reducing their loan financing and increasing equity financing. These findings are more prominent for financially unconstrained and well-governed firms, suggesting that high-ability managers are more apt to use equity financing as a financial source in firms with better financial and governance quality. To address potential endogeneity problems, we document that the impact of managerial ability on external financing remains unchanged after we employ yearly regression, change analysis, quantile regression, and the instrumental variable approach.
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Footnotes
1
The estimation of Managerial Ability is provided in Appendix 2.
 
2
The detailed calculation is as follows: the standard deviation of Managerial Ability is 0.21 (see Table 1), and the coefficient on Managerial Ability in column (6) of Table 4 is − 0.015, so the increase in one-standard-deviation of Managerial Ability cause the reduction of principle amount over total assets by 0.21 × 0.015 = 31.5 basis points. The mean value of PA/Asset is 1000 basis points (Table 1), so the growth rate is 31.5/1,000 = 3.15%.
 
3
The detailed calculation is as follows: the standard deviation of Managerial Ability is 0.21 (see Table 1), and the coefficient on Managerial Ability in column (2) of Table 5 is 0.010, so the increase in one-standard-deviation of Managerial Ability cause an increase of equity financing by 0.21 × 0.010 = 21 basis points. The mean value of Equity Financing is 5200 basis points (Table 1), so the percentage increase is 21/5,200 = 0.40%.
 
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Metadata
Title
Managerial Ability and External Financing
Authors
Min-Rui Choo
Chih-Wei Wang
Chi Yin
Jie-Lun Li
Publication date
21-07-2020
Publisher
Springer Japan
Published in
Asia-Pacific Financial Markets / Issue 2/2021
Print ISSN: 1387-2834
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6946
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10690-020-09313-5

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