We investigate the effect of climate change, through natural disasters, on corporate borrowing costs. Using novel data, we construct granular measures of borrowers’ exposure to various natural disasters. We disentangle the effect of lenders updating their believes about the future severity and...

Banks price physical climate change-related risks after observing natural disasters linked to climate change. We isolate this updating process by identifying loans to borrowers at risk of, but not-directly affected by, climate-change related disasters. Loan spreads for these borrowers spike in...

Using data from the US syndicated loan market, we find women to be underrepresented among senior commercial bankers. This gap persists due to unequal promotion rates for men and women at the same institution in the same year, and cannot be explained by different individual or managerial...

We investigate how bankers use private information to help borrowers combine resources in strategic alliances. Firms that have borrowed from the same banker are significantly more likely to enter an alliance. Even indirect connections through a banker network can facilitate alliances. Consistent...