Capital Flows with Debt- and Equity-Financed Investment-Equilibrium Structure and Efficiency Implications
November 1, 1998
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Summary
This paper distinguishes between debt and equity flows in the presence of information asymmetry between the firm’s “insiders” and “outsiders” in a small open economy. It shows the inadequacy of capital investment because its scope is too narrow and the investment each firm makes is too little. An unconventional policy tool is proposed to correct the market failure: lump-sum subsidies to firms that choose to equity-finance their investments.
Subject: Capital flows, Productivity, Securities markets, Stock markets, Stocks
Keywords: debt market, firm, market value, WP
Pages:
21
Volume:
1998
DOI:
Issue:
159
Series:
Working Paper No. 1998/159
Stock No:
WPIEA1591998
ISBN:
9781451857641
ISSN:
1018-5941
