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Growth opportunities and the choice of leverage, debt maturity, and covenants

We investigate the effect of growth opportunities in a firm's investment opportunity set on its joint choice of leverage, debt maturity, and covenants. Using a database that contains detailed debt covenant information, we provide large-sample evidence of the incidence of covenants in public debt and construct firm-level indices of bondholder covenant protection. We find that covenant protection is increasing in growth opportunities, debt maturity, and leverage. We also document that the negative relation between leverage and growth opportunities is significantly attenuated by covenant protection, suggesting that covenants can mitigate the agency costs of debt for high growth firms.Printed Journal

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PSB lt.dasar - Pascasarjana1
Penerbit The American Finance Association.,
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Subjek Debt
Business growth
Leverage
Covenants
Opportunity
studies
ISBN/ISSN 221082
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