After a steady increase following the global financial crisis, private nonfinancial sector leverage rose further during … empirical relationships between increased leverage, financial conditions, and macro-financial stability in a sample of major … advanced and emerging market economies. We find that loose financial conditions contribute to leverage buildups and generate an …

-pronged approach to investigate the relationship between corporate leverage and fixed investment spending. The empirical analysis …, robust to a battery of sensitivity checks, confirm corporate leverage is highly vulnerable to disruptions in profitability …

This paper investigates the role of tax incentives towards debt finance in the buildup of leverage in the nonfinancial … corporate (NFC) sector, using a large firm-level dataset. We find that so-called debt bias is a significant driver of leverage …, for both small and medium-sized enterprises and larger firms, with its effect accounting for about a quarter of leverage …