Capital Structure and Firms’ performance: Evidence form UK Listed Firms

This study is to investigate the effect which capital structure has had on firms’ performance using a panel data sample representing of 346 UK listed firms during 2004-2007. The result showed that a firm’s capital structure had a significant negative impact on the firm’s performance measure of retur...

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Main Author: Jin, Han
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23923/
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description This study is to investigate the effect which capital structure has had on firms’ performance using a panel data sample representing of 346 UK listed firms during 2004-2007. The result showed that a firm’s capital structure had a significant negative impact on the firm’s performance measure of return on assets. This study also found that the short-term debt to total assets (STDTA) and long-term debt to total assets (LTDTA) have a negative effect on the firm’s return on assets as well. Moreover, a firm’s size and firm’s growth opportunity has been found to have a significant and positive effect on a firm’s return on assets, whereas the risk has been found to have negative relationship with the firm’s return on assets.
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spelling nottingham-239232018-01-25T22:00:56Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23923/ Capital Structure and Firms’ performance: Evidence form UK Listed Firms Jin, Han This study is to investigate the effect which capital structure has had on firms’ performance using a panel data sample representing of 346 UK listed firms during 2004-2007. The result showed that a firm’s capital structure had a significant negative impact on the firm’s performance measure of return on assets. This study also found that the short-term debt to total assets (STDTA) and long-term debt to total assets (LTDTA) have a negative effect on the firm’s return on assets as well. Moreover, a firm’s size and firm’s growth opportunity has been found to have a significant and positive effect on a firm’s return on assets, whereas the risk has been found to have negative relationship with the firm’s return on assets. 2010-09-22 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23923/1/DT_Final_JH.pdf Jin, Han (2010) Capital Structure and Firms’ performance: Evidence form UK Listed Firms. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished)
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Capital Structure and Firms’ performance: Evidence form UK Listed Firms
title Capital Structure and Firms’ performance: Evidence form UK Listed Firms
title_full Capital Structure and Firms’ performance: Evidence form UK Listed Firms
title_fullStr Capital Structure and Firms’ performance: Evidence form UK Listed Firms
title_full_unstemmed Capital Structure and Firms’ performance: Evidence form UK Listed Firms
title_short Capital Structure and Firms’ performance: Evidence form UK Listed Firms
title_sort capital structure and firms’ performance: evidence form uk listed firms
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/23923/