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Debt Recovery in Firm Liquidations : Do Liquidation Trustees Matter?
Cepec, Jaka - 2016
Insolvency systems play a crucial role in protection of creditor rights, yet micro-level empirical evidence on the … functioning of insolvency regimes worldwide is sparse. We investigate whether creditors' recovery of outstanding claims, a measure … of ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime, depends on the characteristics of the trustee delegated the administration …
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Firms' Financial Choices and Thin Capitalization Rules under Corporate Tax Competition
Haufler, Andreas - 2008
Thin capitalization rules have become an important element in the corporate tax systems of developed countries. This paper sets up a model where national and multinational firms choose tax-efficient financial structures and countries compete for multinational firms through statutory tax rates...
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Taxation and the Optimal Constraint on Corporate Debt Finance
Birch Sørensen, Peter - 2014
The tax bias in favour of debt finance under the corporate income tax means that corporate debt ratios exceed the socially optimal level. This creates a rationale for thin-capitalization rules limiting the amount of debt that qualifies for interest deductibility. This paper sets up a model of...
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Multinational Capital Structure and Tax Competition
Wrede, Matthias - 2010
This paper analyzes tax competition when welfare maximizing jurisdictions levy source-based corporate taxes and multinational enterprises choose tax-efficient capital-to-debt ratios. Under separate accounting, multinationals shift debt from low-tax to high-tax countries. The Nash equilibrium of...
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Optimal Investment and Financial Strategies Under Tax Rate Uncertainty
Fedele, Alessandro - 2010
In this paper we apply a real-option model to study the effects of tax rate uncertainty on a firm's decisions. In doing so, we depart from the relevant literature, which focuses on fully equity-financed investment project. By letting a representative firm borrow optimally, we show that debt...
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Preemption, Start-Up Decisions and the Firms' Capital Structure
Moretto, Michele; Panteghini, Paolo M. - 2021
In this article, we analyse the interactions between financial and start-up decisions in an oligopolistic framework, where firms compete to enter a new market. We show that preemption can substantially reduce the negative effects of credit rationing on start-up investment decisions
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The Capital Structure of Multinational Companies Under Tax Competition
Panteghini, Paolo M. - 2021
This article studies the relationship between debt policies of multinational companies (MNCs) and governments' tax strategies. In the first part, it is shown that the ability to shift income from high- to low-tax countries affects MNCs' financial choices. In the second part we show how MNCs'...
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Illiquidity and Under-Valuation of Firms
Gale, Douglas M. - 2012
We study a competitive model in which market incompleteness implies that debt-financed firms may default in some states of nature and default may lead to the sale of the firms' assets at fire sale prices when markets are illiquid. This incompleteness is the only friction in the model and the...
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Basel Accord and Financial Intermediation : The Impact of Policy
Berka, Martin - 2013
This paper studies loan activity in a context where banks must follow Basel Accord-type rules and acquire financing from households. Loan activity typically decreases when entrepreneurs' investment returns decline, and we study which type of policy could revigorate an economy in a trough. We...
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Optimal Risk-Sharing in Mortgage Contracts : The Effects of Potential Prepayment and Default
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2014
Much of the literature on the economics of mortgage markets has studied the FRM-ARM choice made by individual borrowers. However, to decide if the outcome of such a choice is efficient or approximately so, it is necessary to explore the question of optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts. But...
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