The Employee Clientele of Corporate Leverage: Evidence from Personal Labor Income Diversification
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Keywords
clientele effect; personal labor income diversification; employee job risk aversion; leverage; capital structure; Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics database;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
- G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
- G39 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Other
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2018-01-22 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CFN-2018-01-22 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-LMA-2018-01-22 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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