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Corporate Debt Maturity and Acquisition Decisions
Author(s) -
Fu Xudong,
Tang Tian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
financial management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.647
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1755-053X
pISSN - 0046-3892
DOI - 10.1111/fima.12117
Subject(s) - maturity (psychological) , business , debt , market liquidity , monetary economics , payment , cash , stock (firearms) , debt ratio , cash flow , sample (material) , finance , economics , mechanical engineering , psychology , developmental psychology , chemistry , chromatography , engineering
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of corporate debt maturity on firms’ acquisition decisions using a large sample of acquisitions from 1991 to 2010. We find that firms with shorter debt maturity are less likely to undertake acquisitions. If they do, they are more likely to undertake smaller deals, take more time to complete, are less likely to make all cash offers, and tend to use less cash in the payment. These results support the predictions of the increased liquidity risk hypothesis. We also find that acquirers with shorter debt maturity realize higher announcement returns and experience better long‐term stock returns and operating performance. These results suggest that short debt maturity improves the efficiency of capital allocation through acquisition decisions.

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