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An analysis of a q model of investment in which financial structure affects firm value, using a perfect foresight model of general equilibrium that includes a debt-related agency cost; uses the comparative statics and dynamics of changing the corporate tax rate as an illustration.
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An analysis of the corporate investment decision when financial structure has real effects, utilizing data for the U.S. manufacturing sector from 1954 to 1980.
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uring the 1980s, the proportion of business assets financed by debt exceeded that of any other period since World War II. The characteristics of financial securities also changed, as junk bonds, variants of preferred stock, warrants, and other forms of mezzanine financing became more common in...
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considers the extent to which changes in the cost of capital can account for these shifts. A number of developments occurred in … the 1980s that affected the cost of capital more for some industries and assets than others. It is well known, for example … allocation of investment. The article concludes that the changes are due in large part to movements in real capital goods prices …
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We study the macroeconomic implications of the debt overhang distortion. In our model, the distortion arises because investment is non-contractible—when a firm borrows funds, the debt contract cannot specify or depend on the firm’s future level of investment. After the debt contract is...
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labour and capital below unity. We show that compared to the Cobb-Douglas case, the likelihood of indeterminacy under a …
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This paper empirically verifies that the types of capital adjustment costs serve as an important mechanism in relation … affect busin ess cycles. Specifically, it is found through empirical methods using corporate financial data that capital … economy. In particular, capital adjustment costs are empirically proven to cause investment dispersion to expand given that …
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A Beckerian model of household production is developed to study the allocation of capital and time between market and … the market, labor interacts with business capital to produce market goods and services, and likewise at home the remaining … time, leisure, is combined with household capital to produce home goods and services. The theoretical model presented is …
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Remarks at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Jackson Hole Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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