IFDP Paper: Corporate Debt Maturity Matters for Monetary Policy
Joachim Jungherr, Matthias Meier, Timo Reinelt, and Immo SchottWe provide novel empirical evidence that firms’ investment is more responsive to monetary policy when a higher fraction of their debt matures. In a heterogeneous firm New Keynesian model with financial frictions and endogenous debt maturity, two channels explain this finding: (1.) Firms with more maturing debt have larger roll-over needs and are therefore more exposed to fluctuations in the real interest rate (roll-over risk).