Debt Maturity, Risk, and Asymmetric Information /

We test the implications of Flannery's (1986) and Diamond's (1991) models concerning the effects of risk and asymmetric information in determining debt maturity, and we examine the overall importance of informational asymmetries in debt maturity choices. We employ data on over 6,000 commer...

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1. autor: Espinosa-Vega, Marco
Kolejni autorzy: Berger, Allen, Frame, W. Scott, Miller, Nathan
Format: Czasopismo
Język:English
Wydane: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Seria:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/201
Dostęp online:Full text available on IMF
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