Good cop, bad cop: complementarities between debt and equity in disciplining management
In this paper we examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former, being relatively insensitive to upside risk, provides a commitment to...
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University of Oxford
2003
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