DeAngelo, Harry; Gonçalves, Andrei S.; Stulz, René M. - 2021
This paper documents new and empirically important interactions between cash-balance and leverage dynamics. Cash ratios … structure. Leverage and cash dynamics interact approximately as predicted by the internal-versus-external funding regimes in … Myers and Majluf (1984). Leverage is quite volatile when cash ratios are stable and vice-versa, while net-debt ratios are …