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Financial Structure and Macroeconomic Volatility: Theory and Evidence Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Huizinga, Harry
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This paper presents a simple model capturing differences between debt and equity finance to examine how financial structure matters for macroeconomic volatility. Debt finance is relatively cheap in the sense that debt holders need to verify relatively few profitability states, but debt finance may lead to costly bankruptcy. At the aggregate level, a more debt-based financial structure leads to a higher bankruptcy rate. Therefore, aggregate output is more variable in case of a heavy reliance on debt finance. This paper provides empirical evidence that countries with more equity finance have a lower variance of GDP and a lower probability of episodes of negative economic growth.
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Keywords: bankruptcy costs financial structure macroeconomic volatility Other versions of this item:
Find related papers by JEL classification: C24 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Truncated and Censored Models E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy G33 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Bankruptcy; Liquidation
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