We examine the relation between the cost of debt financing and a governance index that contains various antitakeover and shareholder protection provisions. Using firm-level data from the Investors Research Responsibility Center for the period 1990 through 2000, we find that antitakeover...

We examine the relation between the cost of debt financing and a governance index that contains various antitakeover and shareholder protection provisions. Using firm-level data from the Investors Research Responsibility Center for the period 1990 through 2000, we find that antitakeover...

Five methods of estimating the term structure from on-the-run Treasuries are compared with respect to error in spot rate estimation, forward rate estimation and coupon bond pricing. The methods can all be considered variants of the bootstrapping technique. The two discrete-time bootstrapping...

We investigate the impact of founding-family ownership structure on the agency cost of debt. We find that founding-family ownership is common in large, publicly traded firms and is related, both statistically and economically, to a lower cost of debt financing. The evidence also indicates that...

Five methods of estimating the term structure from on-the-run Treasuries are compared with respect to error in spot rate estimation, forward rate estimation, and coupon bond pricing. The methods can all be considered variants of the bootstrapping technique. The two discrete-time bootstrapping...

We examine the impact of CEO turnover announcements on bondholder wealth, stockholder wealth, and firm value. Using publicly traded data for the period from 1973 to 2000, we find that CEO turnover events while value enhancing to stockholders, are value decreasing to bondholders, and overall have...

Existing research suggests that, for a given firm, stock returns and changes in bond spreads are negatively related. In this paper, we show how takeover risk influences this relation. Based on a large sample of data covering the period from 1980 to 2000, we find that high-rated firms which are...

The literature provides conflicting evidence on the relation between corporate international activity and the cost and level of debt financing. Based on this evidence, we explore the impact of firm international activity on debt financing. Using a market-based sample of U.S. firms, we find...

Recent research suggests that firm internationalization is associated with greater exchange rate risk and a higher cost of equity capital. However, there is no research on the relation between the level of firm international activity and the cost of debt financing. This study offers the first...

Creditor reliance on accounting-based debt covenants suggests that debtors are potentially concerned with board of director characteristics that influence the financial accounting process. In a sample of Samp;P 500 firms, we find that the cost of debt financing is inversely related to board...