I develop a dynamic model of financing decisions and optimal debt maturity choice in which creditors face adverse …-leverage firms eventually decide to issue debt. Because shorter maturity debt is less sensitive to information, younger firms issue … shorter maturity debt to alleviate adverse selection while mature firms issue longer maturity debt, leading to a life …

, maturity, and currency denomination at the firm and aggregate levels. Using data on worldwide debt issuance from advanced and … markets. Firms also moved toward longer-term markets, maintaining (or even increasing) their borrowing maturity. As they moved …