An Empirical Study on The Determinants of The Capital Structure Listed in Indonesian Manufacturing Firms For The Period 1995 - 2000
Abstract
Sukarno, MIndra. (2005). An Empirical Study onThe determinants of The Capital Structure
of Listed Indonesian Manufacturing Firms for The Period 1995 - 2000. Yogyakarta.
International Program, Faculty of Economics. Islamic University of Indonesia.
By developing the capital market and theoccurring of crisis, it is affect the changed of
ownership structure and capital structure of Indonesian firms. Issues, such as how the firms
finance their project, how much they use debt and equity financing, and what are the factors
behind existing capital structure decision are not well understood. The maturity of the
Indonesian markets motivated the researcher to study the determinants of capital structure for
manufacturing Indonesian firms.
This study focused on investigating the determinants of capital structure of listed
manufacturing Indonesian firms. Tin's study uses leverage or capital structure as dependent
variable which can be defined as book value of long term debt divided by sum of equity and
book value of long term debt. Then, as independent variable proxy are profitability, growth,
tangibility, firm size, market to book, business risk, agency and non debt tax shield. This
study uses ML- ARCH (Maximum Likelihood) method and multiple linear regression model.
This study indicates that profitability and agency have significant negative influence on
leverage, then firm size, market to book, non debt tax shield significant positive influence on
leverage. Meanwhile, growth, business risk and tangibility are identified to have positive
influence on leverage but not significant.
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