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Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?

Musings on Markets

In this section, I will lay out a mechanism for evaluating the effects of borrowing on the cost of funding a business, i.e., the cost of capital, and talk about why firms may under or overshoot this optimal. Me-to-ism : The second and almost as powerful a force in determining debt policy is peer group behavior.

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