Eisfeldt, Andrea; Rampini, Adriano - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
This paper studies the role of leasing of productive assets. When capital is leased (or rented), it is more easily … repossessed and hence leasing has higher debt capacity and relaxes financing constraints. However, leasing gives rise to an agency … leasing provided by leasing firms, namely that leasing “preserves capital,†which is generally considered a fallacy in the …