This paper challenges the belief that accelerated depreciation methods are always superior to the straight-line method-especially for low-tax bracket owners of highly leveraged investments who have prospects for income growth. The root of the problem is our highly progressive income tax...

This paper sets forth a general, unified procedure for the treatment of flotation costs for the regulated utility, a method which reduces to standard treatments as special cases. In this approach, the regulated return becomes a weighted average of the required rates on different portions of...

Some of the authors of empirical bankruptcy studies have misinterpreted the "absolute priority rule" (APR) and erroneously concluded that at least some bankruptcy courts are failing to enforce the law. This paper clarifies the APR and explains why departures from it are permitted by the US...

Using a large panel of industrial Compustat firms from 1971 to 1988, we find long-term external financing to be positively related to the period's capital expenditures on growth opportunities, but negatively related to beginning-of-the-period financial slack, broadly defined. These findings...