Assuming an alternative corporate governance paradigm that puts employees in the firm's governance structures, as well as understanding their objective functions, we investigate capital structure decisions in an employee-governed firm. Examining corporate capital structure decisions in 12...

We empirically examine theories of secured debt. Credit risk and asset volatility increase with secured debt issuance, and the strength of this association is unrelated to contemporaneous investment. Hand-collected data reveals most secured debt is secured on all assets of the firm and rarely...

I develop a hypothesis that predicts nonlinear patterns of leverage and cash holdings over firms' financial flexibility demand stages. The hypothesis also predicts distinctive financing patterns over the financial flexibility demand stages. The empirical results support the hypothesis:...

A conceptual framework for intra-firm financing leverage analysis based on the mechanical analysis of physical leverage (the genesis of the concept of financing leverage) of a corporate firm under condition of future business risk considering a short-term planning horizon, composed of (a) an...

A recent dramatic rise in the assets managed by passive corporate debt funds has profound implications for firm financing and payout policy. I use fund-specific flows to isolate exogenous increases in firm-level passive debt ownership at a firm. Firms respond to higher levels of passive debt...

This paper studies the behavior of leverage ratios in a dynamic trade-off model with real frictions. Firms underutilize debt when financing investment to retain financial flexibility. Underutilization of debt persists even when firms exercise their last investment options, and it is more (less)...