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. Verfasser: Espinosa-Vega, Marco
Weitere Verfasser: Berger, Allen, Frame, W. Scott, Miller, Nathan
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/201
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF