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The rapid accumulation of private debt is widely viewed as a major risk to financial and economic stability. This paper systematically and comprehensively assesses the effect of private debt buildup on economic growth. In the spirit of Mian, Sufi, and Verner (2017) that separately examine the...
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We model the expansion decision of a levered firm. Straight debt distorts both timing and scaling: the firm invests less and later than its all-equity financed counterpart. The inclusion of performance sensitivity in the debt contract mitigates such distortions. Moreover, performance sensitivity...
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The study aims to investigate how relying on short-term debt may help Chinese listed firms to make efficient investment decisions and reduce overinvestment problem for low-growth firms. The study uses a large set of panel data of non-financial Chinese listed firms over the period 2007–2017...
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size and maturity. For a sample of 2282 Indian manufacturing firms in the period 1994 to 2009, we show that the growth … process of firms does not follow normal distribution; growth of firms is persistent and; size, maturity and finance …
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relation between a firm's debt maturity structure choice and its growth opportunities. Firms with high pre-pandemic exposure to … growth-inducing factors obtained from 10-K filings have increased debt maturity and are more likely to exercise a call on … to adjust their debt maturity structure. Further, the increase in debt maturity following exogenous changes in growth …
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Why do advanced economies fall into prolonged periods of economic stagnation, particularly in the aftermath of credit booms? We present a model of persistent aggregate demand shortage based on strong liquidity preferences of households, in which we incorporate financial imperfections to study...
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