| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP2933
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| DP2933 Last Bank Standing: What Do I Gain if You Fail? |
| Enrico Perotti; Javier Suarez
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| 发表日期 | 2001-08-29
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| 出版年 | 2001
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This Paper considers the impact of financial contracting on growth by exploring a model where entrepreneurs initially do R&D but subsequently need both outside investors to provide funds for capital investments and outside managers to operate the firm efficiently some time after assets are in place. The source of contracting inefficiency is that insiders can divert cash flows for their own benefit. We employ a repeated game framework which allows us to model outside equity as well as inside equity and debt. We call our framework the two-stage model of firm growth. A key finding is that outside equity promotes ex post efficiency (second stage growth) at the expense of ex ante efficiency (first stage growth), while debt works the opposite way. This is because equity promotes replacement of the entrepreneur, while debt promotes entrenchment. So debt has the disadvantage that it is less conducive to the implementation of second stage growth than equity, but the advantage that it provides the entrepreneur with more incentives to do R&D in the first place. Furthermore, equity is fragile, in the sense that moral hazard may be so high that investors will not finance the firm, regardless of the discount rate. In contrast, debt financing definitely can be raised for low discount rates. A prediction of the model is that in a cross-section of firms, we should observe a preponderance of highly levered, closely-held firms which have stagnated after an early growth phase. |
| 主题 | Financial Economics
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| 关键词 | Corporate growth
Incomplete financial contracting
Outside equity
Debt
Repeated moral hazard
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp2933
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/531976
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Enrico Perotti,Javier Suarez. DP2933 Last Bank Standing: What Do I Gain if You Fail?. 2001.
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