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Global Financial Management Debt Policy, Capital Structure, and Capital Budgeting Copyright 1999 by Alon Brav and Ernst Maug. All rights reserved. No part of this lecture may be reproduced without the permission of the authors. Latest Revision: August 24, 1999 7.0 Capital Structure: An Introduction In this lecture we analyze the firm’s capital structure and its impact on the value and returns of a company. Capital structure is defined as the composition of all the securities the firm issues in order to finance its operations. These securities can be different in many respects: • Leverage: the amount of debt financing relative to equity financing • Maturity: we can have long-term and short-term debt. • Fixed versus variable payments: some bonds and loan agreements have interest rates fixed until maturity, whereas others are reset in certain intervals of time. • Seniority: We can have different priorities associated with debt, where senior creditors have always to be paid before junior creditors. • Currency: Bonds and bank loans can be denominated in different currencies, and some firms have even issued hybrid "dual currency" bonds that have interest payments in one and principal payments denominated in another currency. • Control: Securities confer control rights to the owner, e.g., owners of common stock can vote at annual general meetings, whereas creditors often have the right to stop the firm from paying dividends or selling assets that serve as ...
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