환율의 변동은 기업가치에 영향을 줄 수 있다. 기업이 타인자본을 사용하지 않는 다면 주가를 기준으로 추정한 환노출은 자기자본 가치의 변화만을 반영한다. 그러나 기업이 타인자본을 사용하는 경우라면 환노출에는 부채의 영향이 반영되어 부채를 사용하지 않는 경우에 비해 환노출이 확대 또는 축소되어 나타날 수 있다. 이 연구에서는 기업의 부채사용과 환노출 간의 관계를 분석한다. 부채의 사용이 환노출에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위해 ‘환노출 의 부채레버리지 효과’ 가설을 설정한다. 분석 결과 환율의 급격한 변동이 있었던 글로벌금융위기를 포함한 기간 (2006년∼2010년)에서는 부채 사용에 따른 환노출 레버리지효과 가설을 지지하는 결과를 확인하였다. 즉, 부채의 의존도가 높은 기업의 경우 환노출이 증가하였다. 그러나 글로벌금융위기 이후 기간(2011년∼2015년)에서는 환노출 레버리지효과를 지지할 수 있는 결과가 나타나지 않았다. 이 연구의 분석 결과는 금융위기와 같이 환율이 급변하는 기간에는 부채를 많이 사용하는 기업의 경우 환노출의 급격한 증가 가능성을 고려해야 함을 시사한다.

This study aims to draw out planning principles and structure of Iksan imperial capital city in late Baekje, especially in view of the relationship among imperial capital city planning area, skeletal axis and the location of royal castle. With site survey and analysis of historical records, old maps, topographical maps, archeological excavation data, land registration map of 1915, some significant inferences were drawn out. Firstly from the point of topological conditions, the contiguous line of a stratum from Mireuk mountain(彌勒山) to Wangkung-ri castle(王宮里遺蹟) and two waterways made a topological axis of Iksan Imperial capital city. Secondly district of Iksan imperial capital city can be deduced to the inner area north to Kummado soil wall(金馬都 土城), south to the confluence of Iksan river(益山川) and Busang river(扶桑川), west to Okum mountain fortress(五 金山城) and Galjeon river(葛田川), east to line near to eastern wall of Jesuksa temple(帝釋寺). Iksan ssang-reung(益 山雙陵) was located outside western boundary line of capital city. Thirdly axis from Wangkung-ri castle to northern Kummado soil wall made a skeletal axis of city structure. It got through northern lowland along Buk river(北川) between Yonghwa(龍華山) and Mireuk mountain. Fourthly the location of royal palace can be deduced to the north part of the city around Kumma town area along the planning principle of northern royal palace.

We try to test the pecking order theory of Korean fisheries firm’s capital structure using debt capacity. At first, we estimate the debt capacity as the probability of assigning corporate bond rating from credit-rating agencies. We use logit regression model to estimate this probability as a proxy of debt capacity. The major results of this study are as follows. Firstly, we can confirm the fisheries firm’s financing behaviour which issues new debt securities for financial deficit. Empirical test of SSM model indicates that the higher probability of assigning corporate bond rating, the higher the coefficient of financial deficit. Especially, high probability group follows this result exactly. Therefore, the pecking order theory of fisheries firm’s capital structure applies well for high probability group which means high debt capacity. It also applies for medium and low probability group, but their significances are not good. Secondly, the most of fisheries firms in high probability group issue new debt securities for their financial deficit. Low probability group’s fisheries firms also issue new debt securities for their financial deficit within the limit of their debt capacity, but beyond debt capacity they use equity financing for financial deficit. Therefore, the pecking order theory on debt capacity come into existence well in high probability group.

백제는 한강유역에서 건국하고 금강유역에서 멸망했다. 왕이 살던 곳을 기준으로 구분하면, 한강유역에서는 慰禮城과 漢城, 금강유역에서는 熊津城과 泗沘都城으로 나뉜다. 흔히 위례성을 백제 전기의 왕성, 한성을 백제 전기의 도성․왕도라고 부른다. 기록에 따르면 한성은 北城과 南城 2개의 성으로 이루어졌는데, 북성은 기존의 위례성을 재편한 것이며 남성은 새로 쌓은 산성으로서 유사시를 대비한 군사적 목적의 왕성이다. 남성은 한산 자락에 쌓았으므로 漢山城으로도 불렸다. 북성은 지금의 풍납토성, 남성은 지금의 몽촌토성에 비정된다. 백제 왕도의 방위체계에 대해서는 한강유역의 고대 성곽을 유기적으로 연결하는 방식을 흔히 사용하지만, 유적 편년을 충분히 검토하지 못한 상태에서 지도상으로만 상정한 것이어서 한계가 있다. 백제 한성도읍기의 방위체계는 왕성 부근에 촘촘한 그물망 형태로 산성을 배치하는 것이 아니라 오히려 변경 쪽에 치중했다. 왕도는 한강을 통제하면서 유사시에 옹성할 수 있는 군사적 목적의 배후산성을 대비해놓는 정도였으며, 군사요새는 한강보다 임진강․예성강 등 고구려와 전투를 자주 벌인 북방지역에 훨씬 더 많이 축조하였다. 고대의 방위체계 연구에는 유적의 정확한 편년에 기초하여 역사적 배경을 귀납적이며 거시적으로 통찰하려는 자세가 필요하다.

본 연구는 한국과 인도 상장기업 1,191개를 대상으로 2002년부터 2010년까지의 자료를 사용하여 양국 기업의 자본구조 및 부채만기 결정요인에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 자본구조를 결정하는 기업 특성요인들에 대한 분석결과는 첫째, 이익과 기업규모는 양국 간에 일치함을 보이는데, 총자산영업이익율은 부채비율과 부(-)의 관계와 자본조달순서이론(pecking order theory)에 부합함을 보인반면, 기업규모는 정(+)의 관계와 상충이론(trade-off theory) 및 대리인이론(agency theory)에 부합함을 보인다. 둘째, 유형자산과 성장기회는 양국 간에 불일치함을 보이는데, 유형자산비율은 한국기업의 경우 부(-)의 관계와 자본조달순서이론에 부합함을, 인도기업의 경우 정(+)의 관계와 상충이론 및 대리인이론에 부합함을 보이고, 시장가 대 장부가 비율은 시장가 부채비율에 대해서 양국 모두 부(-)의 관계와 상충이론, 대리인이론 및 자본조달순서이론에 부합함을 보인다. 부채만기를 결정하는 기업 특성요인들에 대한 분석결과는 첫째, 유형자산, 이익 및 기업규모는 한국기업의 경우 예상대로 부(-)의 부호를 보여 이들 변수가 커질수록 부채만기가 길어짐을 보이나, 인도기업의 경우에는 유의한 관계를 보이지 않는다. 둘째, 성장기회는 한국기업의 경우 예상과 달리 정(+)의 관계를 보이는 반면, 인도기업의 경우는 예상대로 부(-)의 관계를 보이는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 인도 재벌기업이 한국 재벌기업보다 부채비율이 유의하게 높은 것으로 나타나고 있는데, 이는 한국재벌 대주주 지분율이 인도재벌에 비해 낮을 뿐만 아니라 재벌에 대한 감시비용이 더 높기 때문에 한국 재벌의 경우 부채의 대리인비용이 인도 재벌보다 크기 때문인 것으로 생각된다. 이와 같이 양국 기업의 자본구조와 부채만기가 다른 이유는 첫째, 인도는 영국의 영향을 받아 영미법(common law) 에 기반을 두고 있고 법적으로는 투자자 보호가 잘 되어 있으나 실질적으로는 정부와 사법부의 부패와 비효율적인 법 시스템으로 인해 자본시장을 통한 자금조달이 미미하고, 둘째 인도의 은행예금/GDP 비중과 대출/예금 비중이 우리나라에 비해 매우 낮을 뿐만 아니라 국영은행 위주의 중장기성 정책자금 대출이 많이 이루어지고 있는 관계로 은행을 통한 자금조달에도 한계가 있고, 셋째 인도는 기업간 신용(trade credit)이나 관계회사 대출과 같은 대체자금(alternative financing)에 대한 의존도가 매우 높고, 넷째 인도의 법인세와 이자 및 배당소득세 제도가 레버리지로 인한 세금효과를 더 크게 만들기 때문인 것으로 보인다.

본 연구에서는 다국적기업과 국내기업간에 자본구조 차이가 존재하는지, 그리고 해외매출비율, 해외종업원비율, 해외법인수 등의 국제화 변수가 자본구조에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지에 대해 조사해 보기 위해 국내 상장 제조업체를 대상으로 실증분석을 시도해 보았다. 분석 결과 외국에서와 달리 우리나라에서는 다국적기업과 국내기업간에 통계적으로 유의적인 부채비율 차이가 존재하지 않으며 해외매출비율, 해외종업원비율, 해외법인수와 같은 국제화 변수들도 부채비율에 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 선행연구에서 자본구조에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 알려진 파산비용, 대리인비용, 수익성 및 기업규모가 자본구조에 미치는 영향은 표본에 따라 다소 상이하게 나타났다. 전체 표본을 이용한 경우 수익성과 기업규모가 부채비율에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으나, 30대 그룹 소속 여부에 따라 표본을 나누어 분석한 경우 상이한 결과를 보였다. 30대 그룹 소속 기업에서는 파산비용과 수익성이 자본구조에 영향을 미치지만, 30대 그룹에 소속되지 않는 기업에서는 수익성만이 자본구조에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 아울러, 1999년에는 파산비용과 수익성은 부채비율에 영향을 미치고, 대리인비용은 영향을 미치지 않는다는 결과를 보였으며 기업규모는 모델에 따라 상이한 결과를 보였다. 결국, 본 연구의 결과를 종합해 볼 때 국내 상장 제조업체에서는 파산비용, 수익성, 기업규모는 자본구조에 유의적인 영향을 미치지만 대리인비용은 자본구조에 유의적인 영향을 미치지 않는다고 결론 지을 수 있을 것이다. 이러한 결론으로부터 국내 상장 제조업체들이 부채비율을 축소하기 위해서는 파산비용을 줄이는 동시에 수익성을 제고하는 것이 가장 시급하다는 것을 알 수 있다. 물론, 이를 위해서는 성장위주에서 안정위주로 경영전략을 대폭 수정해야 할 뿐 아니라 부실자산을 과감히 매각, 처분하고, 경비절감 노력을 경주하여 수익성을 제고하여야 할 것으로 생각한다.

This study investigates whether capital structure in international joint ventures conforms to the norms of dominant partners, follows the local norms, or has mixtures of local and foreign norms, or varies to exploit economic opportunities and firm specific advantages. The results of this study show that it follows neither local nor foreign norms. Factors such as industry classification, size, tax rate and years of establishment are not significant determinants of capital structure, either. Percentage of foreign owned equity and profitability are significant factors. Importance of ownership and profitability seems to suggest that firm specific or environmental variables play an important role in deciding capital structure in international joint ventures.

The study attempts to analyze the impact of firm’s risk on capital structure in the context of seasonal and non-seasonal businesses. We use two independent variables namely credit risk and systematic risk and one dependent variable to explore this connection. Sugar sector is taken as seasonal while the textile sector as non-seasonal businesses. The panel data of twenty-five firms from each sector are taken ranging for the period of 2012 to 2019 which has been retrieved from their annual reports for empirical analysis of the study. The results reveal the negative impact of credit risk on capital structure in both types of businesses. Increasing (decreasing) one point of credit risk causes a decrease (increase) leverage ratio by 0.27 points for seasonal while increasing (decreasing) one point of credit risk causes to decrease (increase) leverage by 0.15 points for non-seasonal businesses. Furthermore, the study shows positive impact of systematic risk on leverage ratio in non-seasonal business and no impact in seasonal business. Any increase (decrease) in the systematic risk causes an incline (decline) leverage ratio by 2.68 units for non-seasonal businesses. The study provides a guideline to managers for risk management in businesses. The research focusses on theoretical as well as managerial and policy implications on risk management in businesses.

The aim of this article is to determine the influence of factors on the capital structure of construction companies listed on the Hanoi Stock Exchange. The data of the article were collected and calculated from the financial statements of 54 construction companies listed on Hanoi Stock Exchange from 2012 to 2019. With the application of E-view software in quantitative analysis to build panel data regression model (panel data), the article has built a regression model to determine the relationship of intrinsic factors affecting the capital structure of construction companies listed on Hanoi Stock Exchange. In the study, dependent variable is capital structure, determined by the debt-toequity ratio. Profitability, coefficient of solvency, size, loan interest rate, structure of tangible assets, and growth are independent variables. The results showed that the two factors of growth and firm size positively affect the capital structure, the profitability factor has the opposite effect on capital structure. Factors of short-term debt solvency, average loan interest rate and tangible asset structure have no correlation with capital structure. The findings of this article are useful for business administrators, helping business managers make the right financial decisions to make capital structure decisions in their own conditions.

The purpose of the study is to find the factors that influence the financial leverage of Vietnam firms. The dependent variable is the financial leverage and the independent variables are firm size, asset structure, liquidity, growth opportunities, profitability, and firm age. The data are collected from Vietnam firms’ annual financial reports in the period from 2010 to 2019. The study uses a sample of 448 Vietnam listed firms in the period. We also employ a panel regression model with pooled OLS and fixed effect to analyze the firms’ financial data. The results of the model showed that financial leverage (FL) has a negative relationship with some factors such as asset structure (AS), liquidity (LQ), growth opportunities (GRW), profitability (ROA), and firm age (AGE) in the fixed effect regression. It means that when liquidity, profitability, and firm age increase, firms’ financial leverage will decrease. While firms’ financial leverage has still a positive relationship with the firm size (SIZE) in the model. As a result, when firm size increases, financial leverage will increase, too. The results showed that models are fit for the research and can be used to predict future findings. It is also useful for enterprises, financial advisors, investors, as well as the financial managers.

The objective of the study is to investigate the effect of growth opportunities on capital structure and dividend policy in Indonesia. The study employs panel data of companies listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange that distribute dividends from 2007 to 2017. Fixed and random effect regression models are used. Findings based on growth opportunities on capital structure and dividend policy in Indonesia are in line with the existing theory (i.e., contracting theory). Growth opportunities have a significant negative correlation with debt ratio and dividend yield, which suggests that firms with high growth opportunities are discouraged to generate debt to resolve underinvestment and asset-substitution problem. Firms with more investment opportunities tend to adopt a low dividend payout policy because the cash flows will be used up for investment. The positive impact of firm size on leverage is due to the low bankruptcy risk and cost of a large company. Profitability has a positive impact on the dividend policy because profitable companies can reserve larger free cash flows and, thus, pay higher dividends. The positive influence of ownership on leverage is interpreted by the unwillingness of majority stockholders to commit to equity financing in order to avoid reducing the ownership and preserve control of the company.

This objective of this study is to enrich the literature by the debt ratio and enterprise performance of Joint stock companies of Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited (Vinacomin). The debt ratio is an important index of capital structure, and it influences and decides the enterprise performance. Therefore, the determination of reasonable debt ratio level is beneficial to the stable operation of Vinacomin’s enterprises. Based on the research conclusion about the effect on capital structure of debt ratio from domestic and foreign scholar, collecting data from 2014-2018 of Vinacomin’s enterprises as a research sample, the article conducts research on the relationship between debt ratio and business performance of Vinacomin, as measured by return on total Assets. In addition, the study uses free cash flow, company size , growth opportunity, investment opportunities, operating costs to sales ratio as control variables.The study shows the debt ratio of Joint stock companies of Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited has a negative effect on the enterprise performance. Furthermore, the research results of the article are references for Vinacomin’ enterprises in the course of production and business activities, determining a reasonable debt ratio, and improving the operational performance of enterprises.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of the Operational Self-Sustainability (OSS) of Vietnamese microfinance institutions (MFIs). This research uses both qualitative and quantitative research methods: (i) qualitative research was via in-depth interviews with ten microfinance practitioners, policymakers and researchers; (ii) quantitative research was conducted by using panel data of 34 MFIs in the period 2011-2015 with binary logistics and OLS regressions. Results are as follows: (i) MFIs’ OSS in Vietnam are mainly determined by five key factors: portfolio at risk (PAR>30), capital structure, gross loan portfolio, scope of activities and legal form; (ii) OSS are most affected by legal status (social organizations have better OSS than formal MFIs or programs/projects), location (MFIs focus in one province have higher OSS than working nationwide or just in one district), capital structure (MFIs with more equity proportion have higher OSS); (iii) surprisingly, average loan size per borrower and age of MFIs do not have statistically significant correlation with OSS. The key recommendations are: (i) MFIs should focus on its professionality and increase its equity; (ii) related stakeholders such as State Bank of Vietnam should promote the enabling ecosystem for microfinance development to enhance poverty reduction and economic development.

This study investigates the effect of capital structure on the financial performance of pharmaceutical enterprises which are listing on Vietnam’s stock market. The study builds the regression using ROE as dependent variable and four independent variables, including selffinancing, financial leverage, long-term asset and debt to assets ratios. In addition, we use other variables as controlling ones, such as firm size, fixed asset rate and growth. We collect data for the period from 2015 to 2019 of all 30 pharmaceutical enterprises which are currently listing on Vietnam’s stock market. The least square regression (OLS) is used to test the effect of capital structure to the firms’ financial performance. The analysis results show that the financial leverage ratio (LR), long-term asset ratio (LAR) and debt-to-assets ratio (DR) have positive relationship with firm performance, meanwhile the self-financing (E/C) affects negatively to the return on equity (ROE). Upon the findings we suggest that the Vietnamese government should focus on stabilizing macro environment to create favorable environment for enterprises. And the pharmaceutical enterprises should build more reasonable capital structure with higher debt proportion than equity, diversifying loan mobilization channels such as issuing long-term bonds. Additionally, the firms should expand the scale appropriately to maintain development and ability to pay debts.

This is a quantitative research, underpinned by the philosophy of natural science and deduction approach that examines the impact of the various aspects of corporate governance mechanism on the choice of capital structure of Vietnamese listed firms. We focus on the effect of factors such as the board size, the board independence, and especially different ownership structures, which include the managerial ownership, the state ownership, the concentrated ownership, and the foreign ownership. They are the main scopes of corporate governance and are supposed to be relevant to determine the corporate financing choice. To explain the causal relationship between factors, we construct the regression model and then test it by using different statistical method approaches, including the pooled OLS, the fixed effects model, and the random effects model. Data are collected from 336 firms with shares listed in the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange in Vietnam, totaling 1583 observations. Overall, the results reveal that the board size, state ownership, and concentrated ownership have positive impact on the firm’s capital structure, whereas foreign ownership appears to have negative influence on the capital structure. The research does not find evidence of a the correlation between board independence, managerial ownership and corporate capital struture.

The research objective examines the effect of corporate governance on capital structure and its effect on liquidity policy and corporate performance. It tests the effect of capital structure and liquidity policy on corporate governance. It also examines the effect of liquidity policy on capital structure and the effect of capital structure on liquidity policy. The study population is all manufacturing companies that went public on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2010-2019. The research population is 182 manufacturing companies. The Judgment Sampling was used and 109 companies meet the research criteria. The study used panel data for ten years so that the amount of data observed was 1090 observations. The analysis tool uses Warp Partial Least Square (WarpPLS). The results showed that corporate governance had a significant positive effect on capital structure, but corporate governance had a significant adverse effect on liquidity policy, and corporate governance had a significant positive effect on corporate performance. Furthermore, capital structure has a significant negative effect on corporate performance, but liquidity policy has no significant effect on corporate performance. Capital structure and liquidity policy are proven to be reciprocally significant positive correlations for manufacturing companies in Indonesia.

The study investigates and measures the impact of capital structure, profitability and financial performance on the success of the business organization. Capital structure of the business organization refers to the proportion of external funds and internal funds, i.e., debt and equity. In Saudi Arabia, petrochemicals companies are working on equity, but financial performance reflects negative trend for the period 2004 to 2016. The research is based upon secondary data available on the websites of petrochemicals companies of Saudi Arabia. Financial Ratio variability analysis and Trend Indices of financial ratios (TICBI) measure and compare the financial variability and sensitivity of financial ratios of the business organization. Correlation between Trend Indices (TICBI) of independent variable and dependent variables are to be calculated to know the impact of changes in debt equity on other dependent variables. The results reveal the unexpected performance of petrochemicals companies due to under-utilization of the resources caused by low demand and lower prices of the products governed by some internal and external factors. The study finds that size, demand, cost of production, profitable streams of products, and low cost capital in external funds are the factors responsible for overall growth development of the petrochemicals industry of Saudi Arabia.

Existing studies disagree over the core predictors of firm-level financial choices in developing countries. The general practice only validates the traditional capital structure model, which leads to inconsistency and a lack of novelty. This study removed overfitting issues among existing factors and presented the most reliable and advanced capital structure model in Pakistani firms. The panel data include 368 Pakistani companies from 19 non-financial sectors over the period 2004 to 2017. We apply Akaike and Bayesian Information Criteria to remove overfitting issues among inconsistent proxies in the capital structure model. The fixed effects regression is used for basic results and the Generalized Method of Moments is applied to control the endogeneity. Besides the conventional proxies, we report that credit rating, distance from bankruptcy, managerial concentration, and institutional quality are the most advanced capital structure determinants in Pakistan. These predictors remain significant across firm size and growth levels. Also, the findings confirm that new predictors are reliable to define capital structure dynamics and improve the speed of adjustment in overall and sub-sample analysis. The major findings suggest that managers and policymakers should consider these advanced predictors to design their financial settings in firms.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of the capital structure of firms operating in a developing economy, Pakistan. The quantile regression method is applied on a sample of 183 non-financial companies listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange during the period of 2008-2017. Specifically, the empirical analysis focuses on changes in the coefficients of the determinants according to the leverage ratio quantiles of the examined listed firms. The findings show that the capital structure of Pakistan listed firms differs between firms in different quantiles of leverage. These differences are significant with the sign of explanatory variables changes with the level of leverage. The research result found tangibility, profitability and age to be positively related to leverage among listed firms in Pakistan. However, size, liquidity and non-debt tax shield (NDTS) are negatively related to leverage. A firm’s growth and risk are found to be insignificant predictors of capital structure in Pakistan listed firms. Moreover, the study also found a significant impact of industry characteristic on leverage. The findings of this study indicate that an individual firm’s finance policy needs to be responsive to the firm’s characteristics and should match with the different borrowing requirements of listed firms.