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- Title
Bond Market Access, Credit Quality, and Capital Structure: Canadian Evidence.
- Authors
Mittoo, Usha R.; Zhou Zhang
- Abstract
We examine the impact of bond market access (measured by having a credit rating) on leverage for Canadian high credit quality (HQ) and low credit quality (LQ) firms, and find that the leverage impact is more pronounced for LQ firms. The results are similar for U.S. firms. Our results are confirmed when we control for the firm's credit quality, examine the change in leverage around rating initiation, and account for the issue size effect. A similar leverage impact for Canadian and U.S. LQ firms suggests that the Canada-U.S. bond market integration has mitigated the financial constraints for Canadian LQ firms.
- Subjects
CANADA; UNITED States; BOND market; CREDIT; QUALITY assurance
- Publication
Financial Review, 2010, Vol 45, Issue 3, p579
- ISSN
0732-8516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6288.2010.00262.x