Venture debt, or loans to rapid-growth start-ups, is a puzzle. How are start-ups with no track records, positive cash flows, tangible collateral, or personal guarantees from entrepreneurs able to attract billions of dollars in loans each year? And why do start-ups take on debt rather than rely...

In this paper we study how the introduction of the euro has affected corporate financing in Europe. We use firm-level data from eleven euro area countries as well as from a control group of five other European countries spanning the years 1991–2006. We show that firms from euro area countries...

This study proposes a novel method based on within-zone leverage variations to measure the magnitude of stable leverage episodes at the firm level. Using this method, we investigate a leading candidate determinant of such episodes' length: access to credit. Using a discontinuity approach with...

This paper attempts to assist fellow leveraged buyout researchers understand nuanced details of corporate finance and leveraged buyouts, in particular. Given Haque, Jang, and Mayer (2022) is produced by esteemed colleagues at prestigious intuitions (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve...

We exploit variation in the timing of bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and adopt a difference- in-differences approach to examine how bank consolidation affects financial policies of corporate borrowers. We find that firms increase leverage ratios after their lending banks are involved in...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the relation between a company's indebtedness and its value. We used a sample of 20 North Macedonian companies, listed on the Macedonian Stock Exchange (MSE) mandatory listing, and the data for 6 years' time span. In the paper, we use Panel Data models...

We examine the relationship between capital structure and carbon intensity in manufacturing firms using a novel dataset that combines information from the EU Emission Trading System with firm-level financial accounts. Our findings indicate that higher financial leverage is associated with lower...

Does corporate debt overhang affect investment over the medium term? To better uncover this association, I argue that we need to measure debt overhang with a concept of debt accumulation or debt boom, and to combine leverage with liquid assets to capture financial constraints. Using firm-level...