The Debt Maturity Structure of Small Firms

By Frederick C. Scherr, Heather M. Hulburt. 2001

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Small business financing in the UK before and during the current financial crisis (2012, background): “While Chittenden et al. (1996), Jordan et al. (1998) and Scherr and Hulburt (2001) find that growth options have little effect on leverage, other studies find a positive relationship between leverage and growth (Cassar, 2004; Esperanca et al., 2003; Lopez-Gracia and Sogorb-Mira, 2008; Michaelas et…”
Trade-Off Theory versus Pecking Order Theory: capital structure decisions in a peripheral region of Portugal (2014, background): “As Scherr and Hulburt (2001) state, trying to understand the dynamism of capital structure in SME is fundamental, given that these companies must carry out frequent adjustments toward the target debt level, as a consequence of the need to renegotiate the level and terms of debt.”
Environment–Flexibility Coalignment and Performance: An Analysis in Large versus Small Firms (2006, background): “The smaller firms’ greater volatility and lower potential for finding external financial backing (Scherr and Hulburt 2001) leads us to believe that they need to have a greater interest in adequately responding to the immediate restrictions of the environment.”
How Well Do Adverse Selection Components Measure Adverse Selection (2001, neutral): “…to the greater potential for asymmetric information about future cash flows, firms with more growth opportunities will be harder to value (see also Scherr and Hulburt, 2001). where CSHO is the number of common shares outstanding, PRICE is the average month-end price for the estimation period, TA…”
Financial Structure of the Family Business: Evidence From a Group of Small Spanish Firms (2007, methodology): “Businesses’ percentage increase in turnover has been used in small businesses as a proxy of growth opportunities, referred to in this article as GROP (Scherr & Hulburt, 2001).”
On the Determinants of SME Cash Holdings: Evidence from Spain (2008, neutral): “measured by means of two alternative proxies used by Scherr and Hulburt (2001) .”
Quantity and quality of information and SME financial structure (2012, background): “Michaelas et al. 1999; Scherr and Hulburt 2001; Esperanc ¸a et al. 2003).”