Leverage

Previously circulated as “Habits and Leverage.” For their comments, we thank Patrick Bolton, John Y. Campbell, Georgy Chabakauri, Anisha Ghosh, Luigi Guiso, Lars Hansen, Christian Julliard, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Kai Li, and Norman Schrhoff, as well as seminar participants at EIEF (Rome), the 2016 European Summer Symposium in Financial Markets (Switzerland), the 2017 Adam Smith Conference (Paris), the 2017 NBER AP meetings (Chicago), the CEPR Credit Cycle conference (London), the 2017 ABFER meetings (Singapore), Harvard Business School, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, EDHEC, Stockholm School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, BI Norwegian Business School, NYU Stern, Bocconi University, and University of Turin. We thank Alejandro Hoyos Suarez for excellent research assistance. This research has been supported by the Fama-Miller Center for Research in Finance and the Center for Research in Security Prices, both located at Chicago Booth. A previous version of the paper circulated under the longer title “Habits and Leverage.” The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• December 8, 2016
• June 12, 2017