Artikel

Costs of Financial Distress: The German Evidence

Costs of Financial Distress: The German Evidence In this paper we aim to verify the existence of costs of financial distress (cfd) for a sample of German CDAX firms using an ex-post approach originally due to Opler/Titman (1994). In contrast to this US-based study we do not find a significant interaction between high leverage and distress for German firms: firms in distressed industries with high ex ante leverage do not display lower sales growth than their ex-ante lower levered counterparts. (JEL G32, G33)

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Kredit und Kapital ; ISSN: 1865-5734 ; Volume: 42 ; Year: 2009 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 93-123

Classification
Wirtschaft
Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
Bankruptcy; Liquidation

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Reimund, Carsten
Schwetzler, Bernhard
Zainhofer, Florian
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Duncker & Humblot
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2009

DOI
doi:10.3790/kuk.42.1.93
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  • Reimund, Carsten
  • Schwetzler, Bernhard
  • Zainhofer, Florian
  • Duncker & Humblot

Time of origin

  • 2009

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