This study examines whether loan terms are jointly determined and if information asymmetries' effects on them across revolving and term loans. A simultaneous equation model is applied for revolving and term loans made by US commercial banks to US corporate borrowers from 1987 to 2009. The...

We show that bank risk rises, particularly for larger banks and those with greater interest-sensitive liabilities, during times of economic policy uncertainty through two economic channels: ‘credit rationing’ and ‘revenue diversification’. The credit rationing channel shows that economic...

We document a positive effect of product market competition (PMC) on venture capital (VC) staging. Employing large tariff rate reductions as an exogenous shock to PMC, we find that large tariff reductions lead to a greater likelihood of staged financing and a larger number of financing rounds....

We document a positive effect of product market competition (PMC) on venture capital (VC) staging. Employing large tariff rate reductions as an exogenous shock to PMC, we find that large tariff reductions lead to a greater likelihood of staged financing and a larger number of financing rounds....

This paper investigates the cross-sectional predictive ability of text-based factors in the cryptocurrency market --an important asset class for retail and institutional investors. We employ Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) topic modeling to analyze news articles...

This study examines how the geographical structure of social networks shapes venture capital (VC) investment decisions. We find that VC firms are more likely to invest in portfolio companies in more socially connected regions. The effect is more pronounced among independent, smaller, less...