The equity ownership level is found to be an increasing function of the manager's fixed salary and the company's earnings growth rate, and a decreasing function of leverage ratio, earnings volatility, tax rate, bankruptcy costs, and the manager's severance pay at bankruptcy.
Higher interest rates make the cost of leverage financing more expensive.
Many forecasters argue that an unemployment rate of 4.7percentt gives workers the leverage to bargain for raises that may prompt their employers to then increase prices.
In most cases, the performance metrics used for accelerators are the usual parameters for measuring business growth (for example, survival rate of businesses, job creation, or leverage of private investment).
Such directories are a dull, predictable business, and the bonds are rated junk only because of the high levels of leverage used for the acquisitions.
Nominally, GE Capital has debt equivalent to eight times equity, a comfortable enough level of leverage, says Moody's, a rating agency.
It was supposed to act like a bit of leverage, goosing yields when short rates fell and hurting them when they rose.
He highlighted the conflicted role of the rating agencies (they are paid to rate things, not to be right) and deconstructed the high levels of leverage and low capital bases underlying the bond insurers, namely MBIA and Ambac.
Users of the app who participated in a pilot test picked up new words at a rate of about four a day, leveraging words from both a built-in list and from a user's own IM conversation.
Beginning in the 1980s, Paul A. Volcker and his successor, Mr. Greenspan, successfully established the benefits of independent monetary policy in reducing the rate of inflation, giving the Fed more leverage to resist White House pressure.
