We investigate how optimal attention allocation of green-motivated investors changes information asymmetry in financial markets and thus affects firms‘ financing costs. To guide our empirical analysis, we propose a model where investors with heterogeneous green preferences endogenously...

We consider a real options model with ambiguity to investigate how cash holdings and ambiguity aversion affect a firm’s dynamic investments. First, we prove a unique positive ambiguity coefficient exists when ambiguity exceeds it such that entrepreneurs believe the project is “too valueless...

This paper introduces a new form of contingent capital, contingent convertible securities (CCSs), which might repeatedly convert between debt- and equity-like instruments depending on financial conditions. We derive explicit prices of corporate securities, assuming the cash flow is modeled as a...