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A Theory of Debt Based on the Inalienability of Human Capital

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Oliver Hart
John Moore

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Consider an entrepreneur who needs to raise funds from an investor, but cannot commit not to withdraw his human capital from the project. The possibility of a default or quit puts an upper bound on the total future indebtedness from the entrepreneur to the investor at any date. We characterize the optimal repayment path and show how it is affected both by the maturity structure of the project return stream and by the durability and specificity of project assets. Our results are consistent with the conventional wisdom about what determines the maturity structure of (long-term) debt contracts.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 3906.

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Date of creation: Apr 1995
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Publication status: published as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 109, no. 4, pp. 841-879, (November 1994).
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