show that growth is higher if the debt to GDP ratio is below 60 % compared to values above it. Moreover, a comparison with …

recent subprime mortgage crisis. Why did the financial markets fail to anticipate the recent debt crisis, despite the large … capital gain, the return on capital and the interest rate. An optimal debt ratio is derived where the drift is probabilistic …, does not depend upon the actual debt/net worth per se. Instead it increases in proportion to the difference between the …

leverage, the optimum and excessive risk and the probability of a debt crisis. The theoretically founded early warning signals … crisis ; optimal leverage and debt ratios ; Congressional Oversight Panel ; Case-Shiller index …

What is an optimal or a sustainable external debt - for a country, region or sector? How should one monitor and … evaluate debt to preclude a crisis? We use stochastic optimal control/dynamic programming to derive an optimal debt. The … explain the implications of DP. An explicit example is the US Agricultural debt crisis. …

pay off the debt, that too, in finite time. Along the transition, every generation faces less pollution, consumes more and …

when investment is debt-financed. In such a case a firm pays the creditor not only the sum of annual interest (initial … the investment is debt-financed, the interest payment additionally reduces the corporate tax base. The research findings … optimum debt maturity tends to correlate positively with the corporate tax rate but negatively with the interest rate. In the …

This paper studies the long-run impact of public debt expansion on economic growth and investigates whether the debt … for a universally applicable threshold effect in the relationship between public debt and economic growth, once we account … negative long-run effects of public debt build-up on output growth. Provided that public debt is on a downward trajectory, a …

to a 0.44 percent decline in stock prices. Second, results point to the "irrelevance" of debt in mediating the effect of … the role of debt for oil firms. …

For a sample of sixteen OECD countries over the period 1980-2007 we show that, for given debt-GDP ratio, an increase in … the maturity of the public debt by one year lowers its long-term interest rate by around 20-30 basis points. This effect … is stronger for countries with higher average inflation or debt. …