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A theory of capital structure in which costs associated with asymmetric information are the sole friction is used to … present a new perspective on the standard pecking order theory. In the model, both the amount of debt and the restrictiveness …
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We present a tradeoff theory of capital structure in which costs associated with asymmetric information are the sole …
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We propose a theory of optimal firm financing given nested information problems of adverse selection and agency cost …
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We study the prices of a firm's debt and equity in a market where investors have private information and may exhibit differences of opinion. We show how debt and equity valuations, and the impact of public information and distress risk on these valuations, depend upon disagreement and the...
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Private debt contracts tend to have covenants that restrict future investment, restrict capital structure decisions, or impose thresholds for cash flows or other performance measures. While previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between firm characteristics and the overall strictness...
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Models based on asymmetric information predict that debt is least sensitive to private information and cannot explain the illiquidity of corporate debt in secondary markets. We analyze security design with moral hazard and offer a new explanation. First, the optimal compensation contract creates...
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This paper investigates the impact of firm leverage on its investment activities. Especially, the research is conducted in the context of the Vietnamese emerging market, an incomplete market in South East Asia with the existence of inefficient market problems such as information asymmetry and...
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significantly negative (consistent with holdup theory), turns significantly positive towards the high end of the growth spectrum. We …
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We examine the relevance of the pecking order theory of capital structure among emerging market firms in the light of … that sample firms follow the pecking order while making their financing choices.We find that the pecking order theory fares … theory fails to explain sample firms' financing choices …
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