Title
Financial Flexibility: At What Cost?
Date Issued
01 February 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Garmaise M.J.
Publisher(s)
Cambridge University Press
Abstract
Firms strategically borrow in different locations. Approximately one-quarter of Peruvian companies with operations in multiple areas source their financing from more than one province. Mining windfalls generate finance supply shocks, leading to the provision of more credit at lower average rates, and we show that firms exploit geographic financial flexibility by concentrating their borrowing in booming locations. Firms are less likely to initiate borrowing in new markets when their current borrowing provinces are thriving. The pursuit of flexibility in borrowing markets, however, degrades a firm's relationships with its existing lenders, thereby heightening its risk of future financial distress.
Start page
249
End page
282
Volume
56
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Economía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85078031622
Source
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
ISSN of the container
00221090
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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