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Corporate Governance And Access To Interest Bearing Debt, Husam Aldamen, Keith Duncan
Corporate Governance And Access To Interest Bearing Debt, Husam Aldamen, Keith Duncan
Keith Duncan
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to extend the growing body of literature on the impact of corporate governance on debt contracting by examining if better governance is associated with access to interest bearing debt. The paper aims to explore whether no-debt companies have governance structures that are qualitatively different to debt companies within a market with a distinct corporate finance structure, such as Australia.
Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is portioned into two stages. The first stage focuses on univariate analysis which includes descriptive statistics and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The second stage introduces multivariate analysis, in the …