We document a significant decline in the likelihood of firm-specific stock price crashes after the announcement of credit rating downgrades in 69 countries. This finding supports the argument that credit rating agencies (CRAs) contribute to the disseminating of negative information in the equity...

We present an integrated framework incorporating both exogenous liquidity risk in the secondary corporate bond market and volatility risk in the dynamics of asset value in debt rollover models. Using an innovative theoretical approach we derive general expressions for the debt and equity values...

The credit default swaps (CDS) market provides a trading venue for downside price movement. We find that future stock price crashes are less frequent after the inception of CDS trading on the firm's debt. The causal effect of CDS trading on stock crash risk is supported by multiple approaches,...

We construct a theoretical framework to investigate the impact of liquidity risk, in the secondary corporate debt market, on corporate risk-taking preferences. Using closed-form solutions, our model shows that equity holders choose to adopt high-risk projects upon the arrival of illiquidity...