The Impact of Capital Structure on Efficient Sourcing and Strategic Behavior
研究了在不完全竞争下，企业资本结构选择如何影响其采购效率与产品市场竞争策略，发现债务融资虽能提升采购效率，但可能通过降低竞争对手成本而抵消其战略优势，甚至使债务成为次优选择。
Abstract We model the capital structure choice of a firm that operates under imperfect competition. Extant literature demonstrates that debt commits a firm to an aggressive output stance, which is an advantage to the firm under Cournot competition. However, empirical evidence, indicates that debt is a disadvantage under imperfect competition. We reconcile the theory with the evidence by incorporating firms' relations with their suppliers, in a model of strategic firmrival interactions. Under imperfect competition and incomplete contracting, we show that although debt financing improves a firm's input sourcing efficiency it could also benefit the firm's rivals by lowering their input costs. This effect offsets the benefits due to aggressive product market strategies that result from increased debt. Under certain conditions this subsidy effect is sufficiently strong that debt is suboptimal in equilibrium and leads to an increase in rival's shareholder value.