Choi, Jaewon; Hackbarth, Dirk; Zechner, Josef - Center for Financial Studies - 2013
We study to what extent firms spread out their debt maturity dates across time, which we call granularity of corporate … debt. We consider the role of debt granularity using a simple model in which a firm's inability to roll over expiring debt … single large one, firms may diversify debt rollovers across maturity dates. We construct granularity measures using data on …