We investigate whether tax avoidance substitutes for external financing. We exploit interstate banking deregulation as a quasi-external shock to examine whether firms engage in less tax avoidance after banking deregulation, because of cheaper and easier access to credit from banks. We find no...

Using Roberts (2015) loan-level data from 2000 to 2011, we find that the inception of CDS trading on reference firms' debt is associated with a decreased number and lower probability of amendments, restatements, and rollovers to existing lenders of bank loans. Reference firms are also less...

This paper uses both linear and nonlinear causality tests to reexamine the cross-autocorrelation between the returns on large and small firms. Consistent with previous results, we find that large firms lead small firms, but small firm autocorrelation, nonsynchronous trading, or a differential...

Private firm owners interested in gaining increased access to public capital, increasing their liquidity, and/or changing the control of their firms, face a fundamental choice between an initial public offering (IPO) or a takeover by a public acquirer. Using a sample of over 9,500 U.S. privately...

We find that organization capital is negatively related to the cost of bank loans. This finding is robust to additional analyses including those that address omitted variable bias and reverse causality. In addition, we find that organization capital reduces all-in-spread-undrawn. When we...