01902cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF001613 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451851823 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Schmukler, Sergio. Globalization and Firms' Financing Choices : Evidence From Emerging Economies / Sergio Schmukler, Esteban Vesperoni. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001. 1 online resource (26 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper studies the relation between firm's financing choices and financial globalization. Using an East Asian and Latin American firm-level panel for the 1980s and 1990s, we study how leverage ratios, debt maturity structure, and sources of financing change when economies are liberalized and when firms access international capital markets. We find that debt-equity ratios do not increase after financial liberalization. Debt maturity shortens for the average firm when countries undertake financial liberalization. However, domestic firms that actually participate in international capital markets extend their debt maturity. Financial liberalization has less effects on firms from countries with more developed domestic financial systems. Leverage ratios increase during crises. Mode of access: Internet Vesperoni, Esteban. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2001/095 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2001/095/001.2001.issue-095-en.xml IMF e-Library