Interactions of the firm's real and financial decisions
- 1 April 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Applied Economics
- Vol. 20 (4), 551-560
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00036848800000064
Abstract
This paper provides an integrated approach to the theory of the firm. Under technological uncertainty, corporate taxes, risky debt and risk neutrality it is shown that the firm's investment production and financing decisions are made simultaneously. It is demonstrated that the relationship between optimal capital (or labour) and debt is not strictly negative as in Dotan and Ravid (1982) nor strictly positive as in Hite (1977). The direction of this relationship depends on the characteristics of debt and the characteristics of the firm's production function. Given the simultaneity of the real and financial decisions, it is shown that an interior optimum exists for the firm's value as a function of debt.Keywords
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