Download or read book Determinants of Corporate Debt Maturity in Latin America written by Paulo R. S. Terra and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, I investigate the choice of debt maturity of the firm for a set of countries of Latin America employing dynamic panel data analysis to a sample of 986 non-financial firms from Latin America and 977 from the United States over a 16-year period. Most empirical work in this subject has focused on developed countries, in particular the United States. Also, it is an opportunity to verify the applicability of some of the theories of maturity structure in a multi-country setting. My main findings are that there is a substantial dynamic component in the determination of a firm's maturity structure, firms face moderate adjustment costs towards its optimal maturity, and the determinants of maturity structure and their effects are similar between Latin American countries and the United States, despite obvious differences in the financial and business environments of these countries.