Accessibility to finance -- Alternative financial systems -- Fragility of debt -- Religion and economics -- The inconsistencies of financial modeling -- Fragility of statistics -- Mandelbrot's fat tails -- Thinking fast (and slow) with Kahneman -- Taleb's black swan -- Risk-sharing --...

We examine the joint optimization of financial leverage and irreversible capacity investment in a real options framework with risky debt and endogenous interest costs. Higher capacity, ceteris paribus, increases operating leverage and default probability, but lowers ex post adjustment costs and...