Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Part one Preamble -- 1 Global Capital Markets: Overview and Origins -- 1.1 Theoretical benefits -- 1.1.1 International risk sharing -- 1.1.2...

With business leverage at record levels, the effects of corporate debt overhang on growth and investment have become a prominent concern. In this paper, we study the effects of corporate debt overhang based on long-run cross-country data covering the near-universe of modern business cycles. We...