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In the conventional literature related to investment decisions, less attention has been paid to the length of maturity … cost at the end of the borrowing period. In this study, the effects of selecting different maturity years on firms … suggest that (1) ceteris paribus an optimum maturity year appears to exist that maximises the NVP, and (2) the change of …
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I analyze how lack of commitment affects the maturity structure of sovereign debt. Governments balance benefits of …-term debt affects default and rollover decisions by subsequent policy makers. The equilibrium maturity structure is shaped by … maturity structure with positive gross positions and a shortening of the maturity structure when debt issuance is high, output …
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How should one evaluate investment projects whose CCAPM betas are uncertain? This question is particularly crucial for projects yielding long-lasting impacts on the economy, as is the case for example for many green investments. We define the notion of a certainty equivalent beta. We show that...
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This paper develops a dynamic two-country neoclassical stochastic growth model with incomplete markets. Short-term credit flows can be excessive and reverse suddenly. The equilibrium outcome is constrained inefficient due to pecuniary externalities. First, an undercapitalized country borrows too...
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In this paper, we revisit the fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL) within the New Keynesian (NK) model. We show in … which cases the average maturity of government debt matters for the transmission of policy shocks. The central task of this … paper is to shed light on the theoretical predictions of the maturity structure on macro dynamics with an emphasis on model …
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We analyze the effect of investor level taxes, firm-specific ownership structure and firm-specific payout policy on firms' capital structure choice. Our analysis is based on data for 10,983 firms from 13 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries over the time period 2002-2012. Our results...
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I present a rationale for a government to discriminate between debt and equity financing when taxing corporate income. For risk-averse entrepreneurs, equity generates more surplus than debt, because it provides financing and insurance. A government seeking to extract surplus from entrepreneurs...
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. However, theory does not tell us a lot about the economic rationale for relationship lending in the context of multiple bank …
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By introducing controlled-foreign-company (CFC) rules, the parent country of a multinational firm reserves the right to tax the income of the firm's foreign affiliates if the tax rate in the affiliate's host country is below a specified threshold. We identify the conditions under which binding...
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This paper analyzes the effects of credit frictions in a trade model where heterogeneous firms select both into exporting and into two types of external finance. In our framework, small producers face stronger credit frictions, pay a higher borrowing rate and rely on bank finance, whereas large...
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