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We revisit the relation between equity returns and financial leverage through the lens of a trade-off model with costly capital structure rebalancing. The model provides a “lookalike” Modigliani-Miller equation that predicts that expected equity returns depend on whether a firm's leverage is...
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In this paper, we revisit a frequently employed simplification within the WACC approach that company cost of capital kV is supposed to be invariant to the debt ratio and therefore equal to the unlevered cost kU . Even though we know from Miles and Ezzell (1980) that kV formally differs from kU ,...
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We revisit the relation between equity returns and financial leverage through the lens of a dynamic trade-off model with costly capital structure rebalancing. The model predicts that expected equity returns depend on whether a firm's leverage is above or below its target leverage. We provide...
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There are relatively few studies that use micro data to shed light on the relationship between finance and economic growth - the few that exists show that there is a positive relationship between debt and future productivity growth. Meanwhile, several new macro-econometric studies have shown...
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initial share of bond- relative to bank-based finance; this effect weakens, and may even reverse, in economies with a low … when bank lending contracts. …
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This article analyzes the impact of capital structure and bank liquidity on the performance of commercial banks in … methods in banking studies. The data includes 463 annual bank-year observations from 37 commercial banks in Vietnam from 2003 … empowering EPS. Our findings also document the positive impacts of bank funding liquidity on the performance of commercial banks …
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This paper estimates the exporter premium in bank lending. We examine credit relationships in Germany, covering all … bank characteristics, our results indicate that exporting firms take out loan s around 15 percent larger than those of non-exporters. …
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