period 1940–2014, we document the following evidence that corporate debt plays a key role in explaining boom-bust cycles …, financial crises, and slow macroeconomic recoveries: (i) corporate debt accounts for two thirds of the aggregate credit … expansion before crises and three quarters of total nonperforming loans during the bust; (ii) expansions in corporate debt …

and borrowers ample reason to care whether nonperforming debts are restructured. One implication of the way in which debt … argument is moral hazard, but (unlike in much of the recent literature of emerging market debt problems) what is central here …

and borrowers ample reason to care whether nonperforming debts are restructured. One implication of the way in which debt … argument is moral hazard, but (unlike in much of the recent literature of emerging market debt problems) what is central here …