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Capital Structure and Firm Performance: A New Approach to Testing Agency Theory and an Application to the Banking IndustryAllen N. BergerUniversity of South Carolina - Moore School of Business; Wharton Financial Institutions Center; Tilburg University - CentER Emilia Bonaccorsi di PattiBank of Italy January 2003 FEDS Working Paper No. 2002-54 Abstract: Corporate governance theory predicts that leverage affects agency costs and thereby influences firm performance. We propose a new approach to test this theory using profit efficiency, or how close a firm's profits are to the benchmark of a best-practice firm facing the same exogenous conditions. We are also the first to employ a simultaneous-equations model that accounts for reverse causality from performance to capital structure. We also control for measures of ownership structure in the tests. We find that data on the U.S. banking industry are consistent with the theory, and the results are statistically significant, economically significant, and robust.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 39 Keywords: Capital structure, agency costs, banking, efficiency JEL Classification: G32, G34, G21, G28 working papers seriesDate posted: June 26, 2003Suggested CitationContact Information
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