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This paper analyses the implications of corporate indebtedness for investment following large economic shocks. The … suggest that investment of high-debt firms is significantly depressed for an extended period in the aftermath of economic …% higher than that of firms with lower debt burdens. The negative impact of high debt on investment is most evident for firms …
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-pronged approach to investigate the relationship between corporate leverage and fixed investment spending. The empirical analysis …
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This paper empirically examines how debt covenants impact the capital structure choices of firms, by utilizing an exogenous accounting based shock to the distance to covenant violation. We find that, on average, the shock to debt capacity had a positive impact on the debt choices of all treated...
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This paper analyses the implications of corporate indebtedness for investment following large economic shocks. The … suggest that investment of high-debt firms is significantly depressed for an extended period in the aftermath of economic …% higher than that of firms with lower debt burdens. The negative impact of high debt on investment is most evident for firms …
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This paper explores theoretically and empirically the link between macroeconomic risk and corporate financing policies. In a structural trade-off model of tax benefits and default costs, I introduce EBIT growth and volatility rates that depend on the business cycle. The model shows that leverage...
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investment, it examines the potential impact of higher debt levels on investment during the recovery. Against this background …
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-pronged approach to investigate the relationship between corporate leverage and fixed investment spending. The empirical analysis …
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Based on a large sample of mostly unlisted non-financial companies, this paper studies the relationship between business cycles and firms’ leverage, disentangling the relative contributions of debt and equity and assessing the role of firm size in explaining cross-sectional heterogeneity. I...
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