I build a dynamic capital structure model that demonstrates how business-cycle variations in expected growth rates, economic uncertainty, and risk premia influence firms' financing and default policies. Countercyclical fluctuations in risk prices, default probabilities, and default losses arise...

This article challenges Modigliani & Miller's (M&M) Famous Homemade Leverage Proof. The M&M proof suggests that since in efficient markets any value impact from leverage results in a homemade arbitrage opportunity, leverage must be value neutral. However, through the uncontroversial notion of...

To investigate whether high quality firms, which strategically wait longer in IPO market than low quality firms do (Colak & Gunay, 2011), also differ in speed of adjustment (SOA) toward target debt ratios and in debt leverage levels, this paper uses dynamic panel data with a system GMM...

This paper presents empirical evidence that the key executives of pharmaceutical companies perceive capital structure, debt capacity, debt measurement capacity, the limit of borrowing, and preference for capital structure. The purpose of presenting this paper is to drop some light on how the...

Many countries' insolvency systems focus on restructuring financial liabilities, and ignore operational liabilities such as leases and long-term supplier contracts. We model insolvency procedures with and without operational restructuring options. Such options avoid excessive liquidation of...

The global financial crisis has shown that money affects the real economy. This study examines the influence of the price and stock of money in the economy on capital structure throughout the business cycle during the last financial crisis, with particular focus on the roles of long- and...