If We Include the Cost of Bankruptcy in the MM

question 34

True/False

If we include the cost of bankruptcy in the MM analysis of capital structure in a world with taxes,we would tend to believe that the cost of debt increases as leverage increases and that there is probably an optimal capital structure.

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