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We study the effects of monetary-policy-induced changes in Tobin's q on corporate investment and capital structure. We … develop a theory of the mechanism, provide empirical evidence, evaluate the ability of the quantitative theory to match the … evidence, and quantify the relevance for monetary transmission to aggregate investment …
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consumption, portfolio allocation, financing, investment, and business exit decisions. The optimal capital structure is determined …
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This paper presents a model of the financial structure of private equity firms. In the model, the general partner of the firm encounters a sequence of deals over time where the exact quality of each deal cannot be credibly communicated to investors. We show that the optimal financing arrangement...
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companies. I test the joint hypothesis that 1) a decrease in cash/collateral decreases investment, holding fixed the … profitability of investment, and 2) the finance costs of different parts of the same corporation are interdependent. The results … support this joint hypothesis: oil companies significantly reduced their non-oil investment compared to the median industry …
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competitive industries, the negative relation between past returns and current leverage will be attenuated. Theory suggests that …
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new relationships. Feedbacks between aggregate investment and the structure of intermediation greatly magnify the effects …
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In this paper we extend the recent work on the choice of input mix under uncertainty. In particular, we demonstrate that the qualitative nature of the disturbance term, along with the decision sequence, is a crucial determinant of the overall effect of uncertainty on the optimal input mix of a...
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This paper investigates empirically the degree of substitutability between debt and equity securities in the United States during 1960-1980. The analysis first applies fundamental relationships connecting portfolio choices with expected asset returns to infer key asset substitutabilities...
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The cost of capital plays an important role in the allocation of resources among competing uses in a decentralized market system. The purpose of this paper is to organize and present what is known and what is hypothesized about the effects of taxation on the incentive to invest, via the cost of...
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This paper shows how government financing decisions can influence the corporate decision to use debt or equity finance. In particular, it is shown that an increase in the stock of taxable government debt reduces the equilibrium quantity of corporate debt, and that an increase in the stock of...
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