題目:Do real estate values boost corporate borrowing? Evidence from contract-level data

摘要：Ample literature builds on the notion that real estate values boost corporate secured bor- rowing (“collateral channel”). A comprehensive contract-level database allows us to ob- serve the value, location, and end-use of firms’ real estate holdings in the US and all debts raised against those assets over the 20 0 0–2017 period. Firms raise new debt following an increase in the value of their real estate but use unsecured rather than secured borrow- ing. We rationalize these findings with a model where firms’ choices between secured and unsecured debt reflect the systematic risk exposures of the assets on their balance sheets. While secured debt may be seen as a safer claim than unsecured debt contractually, we demonstrate that it can be riskier from an economic perspective. Our analysis adds new insight into how firms set their debt structure.

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