The Financial Economists Roundtable (FER) is a group of senior financial economists who have made significant contributions to the finance literature and seek to apply their knowledge to current policy debates. The Roundtable focuses on microeconomic issues in investments, corporate finance, and...

This review evaluates the four major theories of corporate financing: (1) the Modigliani–Miller theory of capital-structure irrelevance, in which firm values and real investment decisions are unaffected by financing; (2) the trade-off theory, in which firms balance the tax advantages of...

Presents a model of the issue-invest decision that occurs in firms when the management of the firm has superior knowledge related to the investment. This decision arises when a firm has a valuable investment opportunity that it wishes to undertake and cannot fully disclose to investors, but must...