Arbeitspapier

Debt dynamics with fixed issuance costs

We investigate equilibrium debt dynamics for a firm that cannot commit to a future debt policy and is subject to a fixed restructuring cost. We formally characterize equilibria when the firm is not required to repurchase outstanding debt prior to issuing additional debt. For realistic values of issuance costs and debt maturity, the no-commitment policy generates tax benefits that are similar to those obtained by a benchmark policy with commitment. For positive but arbitrarily small issuance costs, there are maturities for which shareholders extract essentially the entire claim to cash-flows.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. WP 2023-01

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
Bankruptcy; Liquidation
Thema
Capital structure
Debt dynamics
Commitment
Issuance costs
Debt maturity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Benzoni, Luca
Garlappi, Lorenzo
Goldstein, Robert S.
Ying, Chao
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(wo)
Chicago, IL
(wann)
2023

DOI
doi:10.21033/wp-2023-01
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Benzoni, Luca
  • Garlappi, Lorenzo
  • Goldstein, Robert S.
  • Ying, Chao
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Entstanden

  • 2023

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