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contract using a combination of equity, long-term debt, and a line of credit, we also predict that dividend payments are … relations between dividends, the credit line balance (equity value), the limit of the credit line, and long-term debt. These …
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We propose a theory of optimal firm financing given nested information problems of adverse selection and agency cost. We prove that there exists a unique perfect Bayesian equilibrium with novel features: First, three types of optimal contracts arise endogenously, i.e., equity, transparent debt...
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therefore to a drop in the return to investment. -- Principal Agent ; Moral Hazard ; Hidden Action ; Incentives ; Survival …
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Most firms issue financial assets such as debt or equity (e.g. bonds or stock) to outside investors. While these financial assets differ greatly in their characteristics, their diversity has received little attention in the literature. Filling this important gap in the literature, this paper...
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-term contracts that alter the intuition gleaned from previous literature. Optimism has a first-order impact on incentives, investment …
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-term contracts that alter the intuition gleaned from previous literature. Optimism has a first-order impact on incentives, investment …
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This essay surveys the body of research that asks how the efficiency of corporate investment is influenced by problems … that the marginal return to investment in firm i is the same as the marginal return to investment in firm j ? Second, do … capital budgeting process get within-firm allocations right, so that the marginal return to investment in firm i ’s division A …
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Traditional pecking-order theory (POT) cannot explain why good-quality firms issue equity: this is often considered to be an empirical puzzle. We build a model of capital structure that has elements of both asymmetric information and behavioral finance. Firms have private information about their...
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interests congruent with those of shareholders. Second, because debtholders are negatively affected by risky investment, they … hazard problem, but makes debt less liquid than equity. Debt illiquidity covaries with credit risk …
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