| Availability of funds is a critical question for new French vineyards entrepreneurs. Indeed, investment for grape growing, wine making and wine marketing, as compared to sales, is very large. As these new entrepreneurs free cash-flows stay rather low, their investment capacity can be strongly limited if they do not benefit from a tight relationship with their bankers.In this paper, we present the relationship between the bank and the entrepreneur as an adaptive relationship. We aim at encompassing the literature on corporate debt and investment, initiated by Myers (1977) and debt maturity and information asymmetry in the manner of Diamond (1991). In the model, we study the project value and the liquidity risks when the entrepreneur investment varies. As... |
