Overcoming Overhang: Agency Costs, Investment and the Option to Repurchase Debt
Preprint
- 1 January 2007
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
The presence of publicly traded debt in firm’s capital structure leads to coordination and restructuring problems as the firm nears financial distress and invesKeywords
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