The Impact of Managerial Discretion and Control Challenges on Dynamic Capital Structure
48 Pages Posted: 28 Oct 2004
Date Written: December 19, 2003
Abstract
This paper develops a model that analyzes the impact of manager-stockholder conflicts and control challenge threats on leverage, firm value and debt restructuring frequency in a contingent claims framework. This is the first theoretical study to merge several lines of research - market for corporate control, manager-shareholder conflict, dynamic capital structure, and the effect of compensation policy on managerial decisions - in one framework. This richness of the model allows to reconcile some of the on-going controversy in the corporate finance literature regarding the leverage-profitability relationship - namely, empirical support for the pecking order theory (e.g. Fama and French, 2002), and theoretical appeal of the trade-off theory (e.g. Jensen, 1986). Another implication of this paper is that control change threats are relatively ineffective for high free cash flow firms, in which case shareholders need to resort to compensation policy.
Keywords: Dynamic capital structure, market for corporate control, investment policy, financing policy, manager-shareholder conflict, Brownian motion
JEL Classification: C61, C63, G13, G31, G32, G33, G34
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