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title: Financial Flexibility and Equity Risk
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4553410/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4553410
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4553410
featured: 2023-08-30
citations: unknown
topic: Asset Pricing & Factors
---


# Financial Flexibility and Equity Risk

The research connects limited financial flexibility to levered risk premiums, emphasizing leverage gaps and targets, and argues that leverage alone provides limited insights.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4553410
- Identifier: SSRN 4553410
- Released: 2023-08-27
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 14 (2023-08-30): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-08-30/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Asset Pricing & Factors

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