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Real Estate Finance and Investment

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  • Alexey Zhukovskiy
  • Heidi Falkenbach
  • Ranoua Bouchouicha

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The debt structure - and the complexity of it - affects both agency and bankruptcy costs. For bankruptcy costs, the effects of debt complexity channel through increasing negotiation costs and decreasing liquidation value. In this paper we analyse, how debt complexity affects firm valuations. Employing a sample of 215 U.S. equity REITs, we construct a HHI-index based measure of debt complexity and analyse the effect of debt complexity on Tobin’s Q. We find that higher debt complexity is associated with lower firm values during recessions, consistent with our hypothesis that the effect is due to bankruptcy costs. The effect is economically and statistically significant and robust to alternative specifications.

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  • Alexey Zhukovskiy & Heidi Falkenbach & Ranoua Bouchouicha, 2018. "Real Estate Finance and Investment," ERES eres2018_10, European Real Estate Society (ERES).
    • Handle: RePEc:arz:wpaper:eres2018_10
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    Keywords

    Bankruptcy Costs; Debt complexity; debt structure; firm value; REITs;
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    • R3 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location

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