Impact of Covid-19 on the capital structure of publicly listed firm: Evidence from Malaysia

This paper examines the effects of COVID-19 on the capital structure of publicly listed firms in Malaysia. Using panel data regressions and total debt as proxy for capital structure, we study the relation between the leverage and asset tangibility, firm size, market to book value, liquidity, profitability, growth opportunity together with crisis dummies where it is built based on a sample of 478 firms listed on Bursa Malaysia within industrial products & services, consumer products & services, property, construction, energy, health care, plantation, technology, telecommunications & media, and transportation & logistics industries before and during COVID-19 pandemic for the period of 2016-2020.