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This study investigates the effect of similarity in risk attitudes between lenders and borrowers on loan contracting. We find that when banks and lenders have similar risk attitudes they are more likely to sign loan contracts. Moreover, such contracts are associated with lower spreads, longer...
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We hypothesize that when managers do not exercise their options, they signal valuable private information. Accordingly, we construct a proxy to capture managers’ private information from their in-the-money vested options unexercised (VOU) and find a positive relation with subsequent operating...
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This paper investigates how conventional monetary policy shocks influence corporate financing decisions. We find that low-risk firms (i.e., firms with low debt burdens) respond more positively in increasing leverage ratios when the Federal Open Market Committee cuts interest rates. These firms...
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We find that stock price crash risk is positively associated with lagged equity lending fee and fee risk. This positive relation is stronger for the stocks with a lower short interest level and higher information uncertainty. Our results are robust to using alternative measures of price crash...
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We hypothesize that a surge in availability of information coupled with investors’ confirmation bias could aggravate retail investors’ behavioral biases due to their cherry-picking of information that only confirms their priors. We use the staggered EDGAR implementation to provide causal...
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A long literature argues corporate managers learn from stock prices, but organizations’ learning process is challenging to observe. We present a novel test using firm-level readership of financial media articles as a manifestation of managerial learning. We hypothesize that reading financial...
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We document a novel salience effect in the US corporate bond market. We find that bonds with lower salience theory (ST) value have higher returns in the subsequent month. The annualized differences in one-month holding excess returns between the lowest and highest ST deciles are 3.84|-.2.-| and...
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