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We test one of the main predictions of the financial flexibility paradigm that expectations about future firm-specific shocks affect the firm's leverage. We extract the expectations of small and large future shocks from the market prices of equity options. We find that expectations for future...
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This paper explores the impact of risky asset holdings by U.S. nonfinancial firms. From the early 1990s to 2017, the share of risky securities surged from 28% to over 40% of firms' financial assets. Using a business-cycle heterogeneous firms model, I show that declining real interest rates since...
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We study the relationship between corporate debt, corporate risk and firm-level investment, using a sample of 25,000 listed companies across 47 countries over the last two decades. We find higher leverage reduces investment but show the effect varies with risk, as measured by firm time-varying...
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giving more to all entrepreneurs. In equilibrium, competition for the best entrepreneurs forces intermediaries to offer …. Competition among financial intermediaries always forces them to fund projects with negative expected returns both from a private … scale. The three main features of our framework (competition, adverse selection, and limited liability) are necessary to get …
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