This study analyzes the impact of secondary tax liability borne by stockholders, an exception to the principle of limited liability, on corporate investment. The paper constructs a model of a firm to examine the effect of this secondary tax liability, finding that the violation of limited...

Limitations on or total prohibition of usury (or interest) have been a pervasive theme across religions and ancient societies. Since medieval times, two major institutional changes relating to non-performance of debt contracts have taken place, namely, the abolition of slavery and the evolution...

Limited liability companies went mainstream in 1988, began to capture the market for closely held businesses in 1997, and now have the lion’s share of that market. Since the advent of limited liability companies, a corporate-like liability shield, in addition to pass-through status under...

Does limited liability on damages improve social efficiency? I show that the efficient liability rule is determined by the tradeoff between damages to the tort claimants and benefits to the outside stakeholders (consumers, employees, suppliers, communities, governments, etc). Full liability...

The paper shows how the traditional credit model based on contingent claims analysis can be adjusted when the capital structure includes a short position in a call or put option. The stochastic features of the asset underlying the option introduce additional risk elements into the analysis of...

Is excessive risk-taking in credit cycles driven by incentives or biased beliefs? I propose a framework suggesting that the two are actually related and, specifically, that procyclical overoptimism can arise rationally from risk-taking incentives. I show that when firms and banks have a limited...

In today's world, which is described a global village, competition has intensified and the encouragement of entrepreneurship has become crucial for the development of countries.Especially at the beginning of the 19th century, states have been in search of finding finance for large projects that...