This paper studies the financial consequences of a reported data breach for bank loan terms. Using a staggered difference-in-differences approach with treatment and control samples matched by data breach propensity, we find that firms that have reported data breaches face higher loan spreads and...

We consider optimal nonlinear pricing when there is information ambiguity in a monopolist’s prior belief about the distribution of the buyers. The monopolist’s prior information cannot be described by a probabilistic distribution; rather, it is described by an ϵ-contaminated capacity. We...

This paper examines the effect of credit rating disagreements on merger and acquisition (M&A) decisions. We show that acquirers with split ratings prefer to use stock to finance their acquisitions. More importantly, we find that acquirers with split ratings experience lower announcement returns....