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Consejo Latinoamericano de Escuelas de Administración
2012
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- Non-Linear Relationship between Growth Opportunities and Bank Debt: A Panel Data An alysis of Chilean Firms Mauricio Jara Bertin Marta Moreno Warleta Paolo Saona Hoffmann Administración y Contabilidad bank debt panel data Growth opportunities institutional environmen The aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent business growth opportunities influence decisionson bank debt. This objective is addressed by considering both the arguments of the positive agency theory and the institutional characteristics of the Chilean financial system. An empirical analysis considers the GMM system estimator applied to panel data of quoted Chilean firms for the period 1997 to 2008. The main advantage of this methodology is that it overcomes the heterogeneity and endogeneity problems. The main finding supports the hypothesis of the existence of a non-monotonic U-shaped relationshipbetween growth opportunities and the level of bank debt. The initial negative relationship is explained by the costs associated with underinvestment problems, whilst the increasing part which reflects the positive relationship among growth opportunities and bank debt is based on the arguments of overinvestment costs. This result is robust to a number of alternativemeasures of growth opportunities. 2012 artículo científico 1012-8255 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=71624352005 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=716 Academia. Revista Latinoamericana de Administración application/pdf Consejo Latinoamericano de Escuelas de Administración Academia. Revista Latinoamericana de Administración (Perú) Num.50