Menoncin, Francesco; Panteghini, Paolo M.; Regis, Luca - 2021
We model a risk-averse firm owner who wants to maximize the intertemporal expected utility of firm’s dividends. The … solved in a quasiexplicit form by computing both the optimal dividend and the optimal debt. Finally, we calibrate the model … particular, our results show that the optimal dividend is smooth over time and that leverage is predominantly constant over time …