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Cooper and Nyborg (2008) derive a tax-adjusted discount rate formula under a constant proportion leverage policy … anticipated recovery in default, yet small. The cost of debtʺ in the tax adjusted discount rate formula is the debt’s yield rather … than its expected rate of return. tax-adjusted discount rates, tax shields, risky debt, cost of debt, personal taxes …
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commonly used formulas are inconsistent with the assumptions about the debt plan. We show that the error resulting from using … which captures the effects of a time-varying fixed debt plan, expensive debt, and costs of financial distress, and discuss …
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In many countries, the legal system or social norms ensure that firms are stakeholder oriented. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented firms that are concerned with employees and suppliers compared to shareholder-oriented firms in a model of imperfect competition....
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We advance the feedback/cash as ammunition hypothesis, namely that firms hold cash to address feedback from stock prices to cash ows and growth opportunities. Firms with more liquid stocks are expected to hold more cash, the opposite of the prediction from a standard information asymmetry...
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into a multiples exercise. Confusion reigns with respect to interest tax shields and the WACC. Higher educational levels do …
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We show that enhanced stock liquidity increases a firm’s propensity to hold cash using tick-size decimalization for identification. Our finding is surprising in light of the view that improved stock liquidity reduces financial constraints. As an explanation, we propose that there is a...
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On October 26, 2008, Porsche announced a largely unexpected domination plan for Volkswagen. The resulting short squeeze in Volkswagen's stock briefly made it the most valuable listed company in the world. We argue that this was a manipulation designed to save Porsche from insolvency and the...
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