We extend the literature on the effects of managerial entrenchment to consider how safety-net subsidies and financial distress costs interact with managerial incentives to influence capital structure in U.S. commercial banking. Using cross-sectional data on publicly traded, highest-level U.S....

This paper develops a new measure of the cost of capital, the empirical average cost of capital (EACC), which is consistent with existing methods of calculating the weighted average cost of capital but primarily uses information from the firm's financial statements and requires fewer and less...

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