A state-preference model of optimal financial leverage
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...36 See Kraus and Litzenberger (1973) and Lloyd-Davies (1975)....
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...53 Kraus and Litzenberger (1973) and Lloyd-Davies (1975) demonstrate that the total value of the firm will be reduced by these costs....
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...1' The model we employ is similar to those developed by Kraus and Litzenberger [17] and Bren? nan and Schwartz [4]....
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...The proof of the Modigliani-Miller [8] independence thesis in a statepreference framework does not depend upon the assumption that the firm will earn its debt obligation with certainty....
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...This is consistent with the Modigliani-Miller [8, 9] world in which the effect of leverage on the firm's market value is examined for a given investment policy....
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...Several authors have argued reductio ad absurdum that the M&M tax correction model is unreasonable since it implies that the firm should utilize the maximum amount of debt in its capital structure [2, 12, 14, 16], Robichek and Myers [12, pp....
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...Baxter [2] has presented empirical evidence consistent with the existence of both direct and indirect costs of bankruptcy....
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