Collateral, Risk Management, and the Distribution of Debt Capacity

Adriano Rampini and S Viswanathan ()

Journal of Finance, 2010, vol. 65, issue 6, 2293-2322

Abstract: Collateral constraints imply that financing and risk management are fundamentally linked. The opportunity cost of engaging in risk management and conserving debt capacity to hedge future financing needs is forgone current investment, and is higher for more productive and less well‐capitalized firms. More constrained firms engage in less risk management and may exhaust their debt capacity and abstain from risk management, consistent with empirical evidence and in contrast to received theory. When cash flows are low, such firms may be unable to seize investment opportunities and be forced to downsize. Consequently, capital may be less productively deployed in downturns.

Date: 2010
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