Managerial Entrenchment and the Choice of Debt Financing

Author/Editor:

Amadou N Sy

Publication Date:

July 1, 1999

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

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, management’s expected private gains decrease as initial private debt restrictions are selectively relaxed. In contrast, when credit risk is high, management issues private debt because of the value gains and private benefits from renegotiating more stringent restrictions. When the maturity of private debt is shortened, however, privately and publicly placed bonds can be preferred to bank debt.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1999/094

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

July 1, 1999

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451851700/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA0941999

Pages:

29

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