Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Artigo Acesso aberto Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

BIBTEX RIS

Juros altos, fontes de financiamento e estrutura de capital: o endividamento de empresas brasileiras no período 1997-2006

2012; UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO; Volume: 6; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11606/rco.v6i16.52667

1982-6486

Maurício Ribeiro do Valle, Tatiana Albanez,

Financial Reporting and Valuation Research

Several studies have emphasized the necessity of incorporating factors unrelated to the firm characteristics into their capital structure analysis. Rajan and Zingalas (1995) and Booth et al. (2001) argued for the importance of institutional factors which have remained unexplored and Faulkender and Petersen (2006) have looked at the role of access to the public debt market in the determination of the leverage level. This paper evaluates the impact of (1) specific sources of capital with differentiated (subsidized) interest rates and (2) resources denominated in foreign currencies in the leverage of the Brazilian firms in the years 1997 to 2006, period in that several macroeconomic conditions for the development of the business activities in Brazil were far away from the reasonable, allowing to analyze what did the Brazilian companies with their capital structures in an environment of high interest rates. In order to do so we used classic variables of capital structure literature and variables representing institutional factors in a panel data regarding Brazilian firms in industrial sectors traded in BM&FBovespa in the period 1997-2006. The results showed that: i) the specific sources of capital and foreign currency lines have had a significant impact on the level of indebtedness of Brazilian firms; and ii) including access to these specific sources together with classic variables in the models for determining levels of indebtedness contributed to the understanding of the capital structure of the Brazilian firms.