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ON THE PRICING OF CORPORATE DEBT: THE RISK STRUCTURE OF INTEREST RATES* [PDF]
Presented at the American Finance Association Meeting, New York, December 1973.(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)
Robert C. Merton
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The Debt Burden and Debt Maturity [PDF]
At low and moderate levels of government debt, there appears to be little relation between the level of debt and its maturity. But at high levels of debt, a strong inverse relation emerges.
Alessandro Missale+1 more
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Psychologists and economists often discuss the "pain" of paying for our purchases. Four experiments examine how people evaluate prospective debt payments, analyzing how different features of a loan (down payment, final payment, duration, monthly payments) affect willingness to accept the loan.
Robert M. Lawless+3 more
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Dynamic Investment, Debt Structure and Debt Overhang [PDF]
We study the impact of heterogeneous debt structures on corporate financing and investment decisions in a dynamic trade-off model. The issuance of bank debt along with market debt accelerates investment and mitigates the ex-post debt overhang relative to exclusive market debt structures.
Liu Gan, Xin Xia, Hai Zhang
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Debt Seniority and Sovereign Debt Crises [PDF]
Is the seniority structure of sovereign debt neutral for a government’s decision between defaulting and raising surpluses? In this paper, we address this question using a model of debt crises where a discretionary government endogenously chooses distortionary taxation and whether to apply an optimal haircut to bondholders. We show that when the size of
Ari, A., Corsetti, G., Dedola, L.
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We show that debt is sustainable at a competitive equilibrium based solely on the reputation for repayment; that is, even without collateral or legal sanctions available to creditors. In an incomplete asset market, when the rate of interest falls recurrently below the rate of growth of the economy, self‐insurance is more costly than borrowing, and ...
Gaetano Bloise+2 more
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Bank ownership, lending relationships and capital structure: Evidence from Spain [PDF]
This paper analyses the influence of bank ownership and lending on capital structure for a sample of listed and unlisted Spanish firms in the period 2005–2012.
Fernández Méndez, Carlos+1 more
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“External Debt, Domestic Investment and Economic Growth in Cameroon” A system Estimation Approach [PDF]
The feedback of external debt on economic growth through gross domestic investment has provided quite interesting results throughout the world especially in developing countries where external and internal borrowing have been a tradition.
FORGHA, Njimanted G.+2 more
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We examine the economics of financing small business in private equity and debt markets. Firms are viewed through a financial growth cycle paradigm in which different capital structures are optimal at different points in the cycle. We show the sources of
Allen N. Berger, Gregory F. Udell
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