Managerial Entrenchment and the Choice of Debt Financing /

The paper analyzes the choice between public and private debt by an entrenched manager. The model shows that when the firm's credit risk is low, management issues public bonds because of the value gains from increased flexibility rather than reduced restrictions and monitoring. In fact, managem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sy, Amadou
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/094
Online Access:Full text available on IMF