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High Inflation: Low Default Risk and Low Equity Valuations.
| Title: | High Inflation: Low Default Risk and Low Equity Valuations. |
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| Authors: | Bhamra, Harjoat S1 (AUTHOR) h.bhamra@imperial.ac.uk, Dorion, Christian2 (AUTHOR), Jeanneret, Alexandre3 (AUTHOR), Weber, Michael4 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Review of Financial Studies. Mar2023, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p1192-1252. 61p. |
| Abstract: | We develop an asset pricing model with endogenous corporate policies that explains how inflation jointly affects real asset prices and corporate default risk. Our model includes two empirically founded nominal rigidities: fixed nominal debt coupons (sticky leverage) and sticky cash flows. These two frictions result in lower real equity prices and credit spreads when expected inflation rises. A decrease in expected inflation has opposite effects, with even larger magnitudes. In the cross-section, the model predicts that the negative impact of higher expected inflation on real equity values is stronger for low leverage firms. We find empirical support for the model's predictions. Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix , which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | *Price inflation, *Equity (Real property), *Capital assets pricing model, *Corporate debt, *Assets (Accounting), *Gross domestic product, Counterparty risk, Credit spread |
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| ISSN: | 08939454 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/rfs/hhac021 |
| Database: | Business Source Complete |
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