This paper derives the optimal financial contract when an entrepreneur can evade taxes in a model of costly state verification. In contrast to the previous literature, we find that standard debt contracts are not optimal when tax evasion is possible. Instead, the optimal contract is debt-like...

Привлечение частных инвестиций в инфраструктурные проекты, инициатором которых является государство, является одной из наиболее обсуждаемых проблем...

This paper derives the optimal financial contract when a borrowing entrepreneur can evade taxes in a model of costly state verification. In contrast to previous literature on costly state verification and financial contracting, we find that standard debt contracts are not optimal when tax...

In recent years the market for asset backed securities (ABS) has shown a rapid growth. In an ABS transaction assets are first pooled and then securities backed by this pool are issued. In many cases, several tranches of securities differing with respect to their priority of payment are designed....

In recent years the market for asset backed securities (ABS) has shown a rapid growth. In an ABS transaction assets are first pooled and then securities backed by this pool are issued. In many cases, several tranches of securities differing with respect to their priority of payment are designed....

In den vergangenen Jahren verzeichnete der Markt für Asset Backed Securities (ABS) ein rasantes Wachstum. Im Rahmen einer ABS-Transaktion werden Forderungen in einem Pool gebündelt und Wertpapiere emittiert, die mit diesem Forderungspool unterlegt sind. Häufig werden mehrere...

A principal uses security bid auctions to award an incentive contract to one among several agents in the presence of hidden action and hidden information. Securities range from cash to equity and call options. "Steeper" securities are better surplus extractors that narrow the gap between the two...

ABSTRACT:Existing research argues that convertible bonds mitigate issuers’ external financing costs offinancial distress, agency conflicts and informational asymmetry. The purpose of this paper is totest whether callable convertible bonds are designed in response to costly debt- and...

A principal uses security bid auctions to award an incentive contract to one among several agents in the presence of hidden action and hidden information. Securities range from cash to equity and call options. “Steeper” securities are better surplus extractors that narrow the gap between the...