Publications by Michi Nishihara

The effects of business cycle and debt maturity on a firm's investment and default decisions

We propose a model that jointly determines the capital structure and investment decisions taking business cycle and debt maturity into account. It endogenously determines the triggers of investment/disinvestment and default, which depend on the state of th ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Investment timing, debt structure, and financing constraints

Michi Nishihara

We introduce debt issuance limit constraints along with market debt and bank debt to consider how financial frictions affect investment, financing, and debt structure strategies. Our model provides four important results. First, a firm is more likely to is ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Investment-based financing constraints and debt renegotiation

Michi Nishihara

We consider how equity holders' bargaining power during financial distress influences the interactions between financing and investment decisions when the firm faces the upper limit of debt issuance. We obtain four results. First, weaker equity holders' ba ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Macroeconomic conditions and a firm's investment decisions

Michi Nishihara

We propose a model of a firm's reversible investment decision with macroeconomic conditions based on optimal switching of a diffusion regime. The switching costs and the cash flow generated from the firm depend on a business cycle alternating via a Markov ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014