Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 24

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A)If the value of the firm's assets exceeds the required debt payment,debt holders are fully repaid.
• B)Another way to view corporate debt: as a portfolio of riskless debt and a short position in a call option on the firm's assets with a strike price equal to the required debt payment.
• C)Viewing debt as an option portfolio is useful as it provides insight into how credit spreads for risky debt are determined.
• D)You can think of the debt holders as owning the firm and having sold a call option with a strike price equal to the required debt payment.

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Definitions:

Proportional Tax

A tax system where the tax rate remains constant regardless of the amount on which the tax is levied.

Marginal Tax Rate

The percentage at which the next dollar earned of taxable income is subjected to tax.

Average Tax Rate

The total amount of taxes paid by an individual or business divided by the taxable income, reflecting the proportion of income paid in taxes.

Flypaper Theory

A concept suggesting that government grants and subsidies stick where they first land, meaning they benefit the entity they're directly given to rather than being efficiently redistributed.