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Title: | Are Family Firms More Levered? An Analysis of Family and Non-Family Firms |
Authors: | Haider, J., Qayyum, A., Zainudin, Z. UniKL BiS |
Keywords: | capital structure corporate governance family firm leverage |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications Inc. |
Citation: | Haider, J., Qayyum, A., & Zainudin, Z. (2021). Are Family Firms More Levered? An Analysis of Family and Non-Family Firms. SAGE Open. https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211022322 |
Abstract: | This study analyzes the leverage policies of the family and non-family firms of eight East Asian Economies (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan) by using combined data of 690 family and non-family firms with 3,224 firm–years over the period 2006–2010. This study has used an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression for analyzing the data for the first question, while for the second question, logit regression has been used as the dependent variable (a binary variable). Prior research on family and non-family firms has revealed that family firms issue less (high) debt than non-family firms. Our analysis on a sample of East Asian Economies discloses that family firms have significantly different leverage levels than non-family firms, but their signs are not consistent. On the contrary, when the owner works as CEO/Chairman or member of the Board of Directors, then the family firms issue less debt than the non-family firms. Besides that, this study adds a new question that has not been addressed in the prior studies. The new question has focused on the speed of leverage adjustment. It is found that family firms and non-family firms regarding their debt maturity structure (short-term debt and long-term debt), the speed of leverage adjustments, and their decision to issue securities (i.e., debt vs. equity) are not significantly different. This study concluded that though family firms have a strong influence on each economy, but in South-East Asian countries, leverage policies of the family firms are not much different than that of non-family firms. |
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URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/25680 |
ISSN: | 21582440 |
Appears in Collections: | Journal Articles |
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