underlying mechanisms differ. The tax shield incentivises debt financing as it reduces tax payments to the government. The …Systemically important banks are subject to at least two departures from the neutrality of debt versus equity financing …: the tax deductibility of interest payments and implicit funding subsidies. This paper fills a gap in the literature by …

tax benefit of debt (net and gross of investor taxes) and the debt ratio. A 10% increase in the net (gross) marginal tax … also be identified in a partial adjustment model. -- Debt ; capital structure ; marginal tax rate ; corporate taxes … simulate marginal tax rates, we find a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between the marginal …

firms rely heavily on equity financing, even though benefits associated with debt (like tax shields) appear to be high and …. Debt, however, has an adverse effect on the enforceability of these arrangements because too much debt increases the firm … analysis provides an explanation for why some firms only use little debt financing. Predictions made by our theory are in line …

leverage and product-market competition as predictors of financial distress hazard; and lack of attention to frailty as a … a managerial effort problem, mitigated by leverage and product-market competition as substitute disciplining devices … effect of leverage on financial distress hazard is inverted-U-shaped; (ii) the effect of the competition is U-shaped; and …

composition (equity vs. bail-in debt) is driven by the relative importance of two incentive problems: risk shifting (mitigated by … equity) and private benefit taking (mitigated by debt). Our quantitative results suggest that TLAC size in line with current … regulation is appropriate. However, an important fraction of it should consist of bail-in debt because such buffer size makes the …

unweighted leverage requirements, their differential impact on bank lending, and equity buffer accumulation in excess of …. Tighter leverage requirements, on the other hand, increase lending, preserve bank charter value and incentives to accumulate …

the risk of default outweighs the cost advantages of debt financing. In this setting, banks with lower monitoring costs …

activities. For this purpose, I propose a novel measure of synthetic leverage, which can be estimated based on publicly available … information. In the empirical application, I show that German equity funds have increased their risk-taking via synthetic leverage …