This paper addresses the classical real options problem taking debt renegotiation into account. A critical feature is that equityholders can freely initiate debt renegotiation at most once after debt issuance. We provide explicit solutions of the pricing and timing of the option to start a...

This paper analyzes the impact of one single debt renegotiation round on investment and financing decisions. Shareholders have an American renegotiation option for a permanent coupon deduction. We produce an analytical proof for a widely-used assertion that optimal renegotiation time is the...

We develop a dynamic tradeoff model that incorporates both controlling-minority shareholders conflict and shareholders-debtholders conflict to examine the relationship among agency conflicts, expansion investment, capital structure, and debt renegotiation. We show that balancing the two...

In this paper, we assume that a small- and micro-sized enterprise (SME) funds the expansion investment cost through bank-tax-guarantee (BTG, henceforth) which embeds two credit enhancement mechanisms by taxation and guarantee. We develop a capital structure model to exhibit a trade-off between...

This paper develops a general continuous-time evolutionary finance model with time-dependent strategies. It is shown that the continuous model, which is a limit of a general discrete model, is well-defined and if there exists one completely diversified strategy in the market, then there is no...

This paper addresses the investment and financing decisions of entrepreneurs entering into option-for-guarantee swaps (OGSs). OGSs significantly increase investment option value. Entrepreneurs initially accelerate their investments and then postpone them as funding gaps grow. Guarantee costs...

We study an equilibrium pricing of a new invented equity-for-guarantee swap and optimal capital structure of a firm, which enters into the swap. We present closed-form corporate security prices and guarantee cost, the percentage of the firm's equity allocated by the firm/borrower to an insurer...