Managerial Entrenchment and the Choice of Debt Financing

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...

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Main Author: Sy, Amadou
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1999
Series:IMF Working Papers
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653 |a Macroeconomics 
653 |a Debt Management 
653 |a Financial Risk and Risk Management 
653 |a Debt financing 
653 |a Exports and Imports 
653 |a Micro Finance Institutions 
653 |a Institutional Investors 
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653 |a Value of Firms 
653 |a Capital and Ownership Structure 
653 |a Sovereign Debt 
653 |a International economics 
653 |a Goodwill 
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653 |a Debt renegotiation 
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520 |a 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