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The importance of a firm's balance sheet for determining its investment and employment decisions is the central … assumption of macroeconomic models of 'debt deflation' or 'debt overhang.' According to these models, firm investment decisions …, investment, and inventory accumulation to exogenous changes in sales depend on the leverage of the firm. We find that leverage …
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We develop a dynamic agency model where payout, investment and financing decisions are made by managers who attempt to … accomplished by borrowing or lending. Payout is not cut back to finance capital investment. Risk aversion causes managers to …
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, potentially spurring productive investment. Low interest rates, however, also induce entrepreneurs to lever up so as to increase … their incentives thereby lowering productivity and discouraging investment. If leverage is unregulated (for example, due to … payouts by stimulating investment in response to adverse shocks only up to a level below the first-best. The optimal monetary …
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We present a DSGE model where firms optimally choose among alternative instruments of external finance. The model is used to explain the evolving composition of corporate debt during the financial crisis of 2008-09, namely the observed shift from bank finance to bond finance, at a time when the...
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This paper presents a framework for analyzing the costs and benefits of internal vs. external capital allocation. We focus primarily on comparing an internal capital market to bank lending. While both represent centralized forms of financing, in the former case the financing is owner-provided,...
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We build a dynamic capital structure model to study the link between firms' systematic risk exposures and their time-varying debt maturity choices, as well as its implications for the term structure of credit spreads. Compared to short-term debt, long-term debt helps reduce rollover risks, but...
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We study rollover risk and collateral value in a dynamic asset pricing model with endogenous debt financing by extending the framework of Geanakoplos (2009) with a generic binomial tree and time-varying heterogeneous beliefs. Optimistic borrowers face rollover risk if the belief dispersion...
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, reducing the efficiency of trade. This need for opacity conflicts with the production of information about investment projects …
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A firm chooses its debt maturity structure and default timing dynamically, both without commitment. Via the fraction of newly issued short-term bonds, equity holders control the maturity structure, which affects their endogenous default decision. A shortening equilibrium with accelerated default...
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Many stylized facts of leverage, trading, and asset prices obtain in a frictionless general equilibrium model that features agents' heterogeneity in endowments and time- varying risk preferences. Our model predicts that aggregate debt increases in expansions when asset prices are high,...
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