{"title":"Belief disagreement and debt maturity structure","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111912","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines how investors’ belief disagreement affects the firm’s debt maturity choice. We find that in the presence of belief disagreement, the firm prefers short-term debt to long-term debt. This is because short-term debt is less risky and can attract more optimistic investors, which raises the debt price and reduces the cost of debt financing. Our result is stronger when long-term debt is more risky compared to short-term debt and investors’ belief dispersion is higher.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11468,"journal":{"name":"Economics Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economics Letters","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176524003963","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper examines how investors’ belief disagreement affects the firm’s debt maturity choice. We find that in the presence of belief disagreement, the firm prefers short-term debt to long-term debt. This is because short-term debt is less risky and can attract more optimistic investors, which raises the debt price and reduces the cost of debt financing. Our result is stronger when long-term debt is more risky compared to short-term debt and investors’ belief dispersion is higher.
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