Corporate debt maturity is a concave function of financial leverage when the debt has restrictive asset-based covenants … control over reducing the firm's cost of capital. Managers of highly levered firm choose shorter-term debt (at a higher cost …

We analyze the role of debt in persuading an entrepreneur to pay out cash flows, rather than to divert them. In the … first part of the paper we study the optimal debt contract -- specifically, the trade-off between the size of the loan and … the repayment -- under the assumption that some debt contract is optimal. In the second part we consider a more general …

We analyze the role of debt in persuading an entrepreneur to pay out cash flows, rather than to divert them. In the … first part of the paper we study the optimal debt contract -- specifically, the trade-off between the size of the loan and … the repayment -- under the assumption that some debt contract is optimal. In the second part we consider a more general …