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D'Acunto, Francesco; Liu, Ryan; Pflueger, Carolin E.; … - 2017

The frequency with which firms adjust output prices helps explain persistent differences in capital structure across firms. Unconditionally, the most exible-price firms have a 19% higher long-term leverage ratio than the most sticky-price firms, controlling for known determinants of capital...

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Multiple but asymmetric bank financing : the case of relationship lending

Elsas, Ralf; Heinemann, Frank; Tyrell, Marcel - 2004

, small, and innovative firms) have a multitude of bank lenders, where one may be special in the sense of relationship lending …. However, theory does not tell us a lot about the economic rationale for relationship lending in the context of multiple bank … financing. To fill this gap, we analyze the optimal debt structure in a model that allows for multiple but asymmetric bank …

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The political economy of too-big-to-fail

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2018

I consider a two-period model in which being "too big" is only a necessary condition for an insolvent firm to receive a government bailout because, in addition to meeting a threshold asset size, the firm must engage in a lobbying contest in order to be bailed out. The firm has a political...

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The commitment role of equity financing

Fahn, Matthias; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - 2014

Existing theories of a firm’s optimal capital structure seem to fail in explaining why many healthy and profitable firms rely heavily on equity financing, even though benefits associated with debt (like tax shields) appear to be high and the bankruptcy risk low. This holds in particular for...

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Accelerated depreciation, default risk and investment decisions

Panteghini, Paolo; Vergalli, Sergio - 2016

In this article we focus on a representative firm that can decide when to invest under default risk. On the one hand, this firm can benefit from generous tax depreciation allowances, on the other hand it faces a default risk. Our aim is to study the effects of tax depreciation allowances in a...

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Taxation and the optimal constraint on corporate debt finance

Sørensen, Peter Birch - 2014

The tax bias in favour of debt finance under the corporate income tax means that corporate debt ratios exceed the socially optimal level. This creates a rationale for thin-capitalization rules limiting the amount of debt that qualifies for interest deductibility. This paper sets up a model of...

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Investor taxation, firm heterogeneity and capital structure choice

Haring, Magdalena; Niemann, Rainer; Rünger, Silke - 2016

We analyze the effect of investor level taxes, firm-specific ownership structure and firm-specific payout policy on firms' capital structure choice. Our analysis is based on data for 10,983 firms from 13 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries over the time period 2002-2012. Our results...

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Evaluating the effects of ACE systems on multinational debt financing and investment

Hebous, Shafik; Ruf, Martin - 2015

Theory recommends aligning the tax treatment of debt and equity. A few countries, notably Belgium, have introduced an allowance for corporate equity (ACE) to achieve tax neutrality. We study the effects of adopting an ACE on debt financing, passive investment, and active investment of...

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Credit frictions, selection into external finance, and gains from trade

Unger, Florian - 2019

borrowing rate and rely on bank finance, whereas large firms have access to cheaper bond finance. We show that an increase in … credit frictions induces firms to select into bank finance, which attenuates the negative implications on product variety and …

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Marketplace lending of SMEs

Cumming, Douglas J.; Hornuf, Lars - 2020

Peer-to-business lending refers to online platforms facilitating loans from individuals to smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We conjecture that easy-to-understand risk ratings conveyed by the platform play a pronounced role in influencing the borrowing success of SMEs and that more...

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