Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Yildiz, Serhat - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 12/319, pp. 1-17
We examine the impact of aggregate tax policy uncertainty on firm-level default risk. Due to uncertainties associated with tax policies, firms could have difficulties in determining their optimal debt level and use too much debt to increase their values. This can increase firms’ financial risk...