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Debt covenant renegotiation and investment

Arnold, Marc; Westermann, Ramona - 2015

generates novel implications for the impact of renegotiable debt on covenant and investment policies …

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Equilibrium Defaultable Corporate Debt and Investment

Chen, Hong; Frank, Murray Z. - 2022

In dynamic capital structure models with an investor break-even condition, the firm's Bellman equation may not generate a contraction mapping, so the standard existence and uniqueness conditions do not apply. First, we provide an example showing the problem in a classical trade-off model. The...

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Investment Opportunities and Corporate Debt Policy : New Economy Firms Versus Old Economy Firms

Chaibi, Hasna - 2013

This paper examines the impact of the New Economy on the relationship between corporate debt policy and firm investment … opportunities. One distinctive feature of new economy firms is their high level of investment opportunities. We study whether the … impact of investment opportunities on corporate debt policy is different in new economy firms, compared to traditional ones …

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(Debt) overhang : evidence from resource extraction

Wittry, Michael D. - 2019

ex ante measures of investment opportunities and important variation in the terms of a firm's obligations. In particular … investments. Traditional debt, in contrast, imposes few overhang-related investment distortions. These results show that: (i) the …

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Corporate debt structure over the global credit cycle

Boyarchenko, Nina; Elias, Leonardo - 2024

We study the determinants of active debt management through issuance and refinancing decisions for firms around the world. We leverage instrument-level data to create a comprehensive picture of the maturity, currency, and security type composition of firms' debt for a large cross-section of...

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Heterogeneity in corporate debt structures and the transmission of monetary policy

Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric; Thürwächter, Claire - 2020

We study how differences in the aggregate structure of corporate debt financing affect the transmission of monetary policy. Using high-frequency financial market data to identify monetary policy shocks in a panel of euro area countries, we find that: bond finance dampens the overall response of...

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Relationship capital and financing decisions

Geelen, Thomas; Morellec, Erwan; Rostova, Natalia - 2021

Lending relationships matter for firm financing. In a model of debt dynamics, we study how lending relationships are formed and how they impact leverage and debt maturity choices. In the model, lending relationships evolve through repeated interactions between firms and debt investors. Stronger...

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Releveraging/Deleveraging Dynamics : Debt Maturity and Operational Leverage

Ibañez, Alfredo - 2023

We study a rich dynamic-leverage model that includes (debt-issuance covenants, a debt floor/ceiling, and specially) a fixed cost. When firms face financial but also operational leverage---the fixed cost, the firm's financial policies strongly interact---bringing forward the default time but...

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Debt Covenants, Agency Costs and Debt Maturity

Alcock, Jamie - 2019

Corporate debt maturity is a concave function of financial leverage when the debt has restrictive asset-based covenants attached. This concavity kicks in earlier with increasing covenant tightness and is absent when firms have no restrictive asset-based covenants. We argue that this concavity is...

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A Theory of Multiperiod Debt Structure

Huang, Chong - 2019

We develop a theory of multiperiod debt structure. A simple trade-off between the termination threat required to make debt repayments incentive compatible and the desire to avoid early liquidation determines the number of repayments, their timing, and amounts. As firms increase their borrowing,...

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