reason. -- Liquidity ; Asymmetric Information ; Debt maturity …

market financing, debt or equity financing - seems to be particularly harmful or beneficial for growth. …

negatively related to credit spreads. Particularly during the financial crisis of 2007-09 and the subsequent European debt crisis …

This paper investigates how government bond purchases affect leverage-constrained banks and non-financial firms by … leverage constraint of non-financial firms is relaxed while that of banks tightens. I show that the leverage constraint in the …

Broker-dealer leverage has recently proven to be strongly procyclical, exhibiting impressive explanatory power for a … balance-sheet indicators for asset pricing. In particular, leverage shows a procyclical behavior with a positive price of risk …. Moreover, high leverage coincides with high asset prices, thereby forecasting lower future returns. …