Corporate Debt Maturity Profiles

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Jaewon Choi

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance; Yonsei University - School of Business

Dirk Hackbarth

Boston University - Questrom School of Business; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Josef Zechner

Vienna University of Economics and Business

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Date Written: Aug 30, 2017

Abstract

We study a novel aspect of a firm's capital structure, namely the profile of its debt maturity dates. In a simple theoretical framework we show that the dispersion of debt maturities constitutes an important dimension of capital structure choice, driven by firm characteristics and debt rollover risk. Guided by these predictions we establish two main empirical results. First, using an exogenous shock to rollover risk, we document a significant increase in maturity dispersion for firms that need to roll over maturing debt. Second, we find strong support that maturities of newly issued debt are influenced by pre-existing maturity profiles.

Keywords: Capital Structure, Debt Structure, Debt Maturity

JEL Classification: G13, G31, G32, G33

Suggested Citation

Choi, Jaewon and Hackbarth, Dirk and Zechner, Josef, Corporate Debt Maturity Profiles (Aug 30, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1966613 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1966613

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Dirk Hackbarth

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Josef Zechner

Vienna University of Economics and Business ( email )

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Austria

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