Firm size, measured by total assets, is significantly positively related to the probability of
issuing public debt relative to both bank debt and other private debt. The fixed assets ratio is
also positively related to the probability of selecting pub lic debt. These findings support the
hypothesis that firms with lower information asymmetry tend to issue public debt, while firms
with higher degrees of information problems tend to borrow from banks and private creditors.
Similarly, in untabulated regressions, we find that another measure of information asymmetry,