Debt collateralization, capital structure, and maximal leverage

Abstract We study the effects of allowing risky debt to be used as collateral in a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and collateralized financial contracts. With debt collateralization, investors switch to using exclusively high-leverage contracts for every investmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gong, Feixue, Phelan, Gregory
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131408

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