We examine the drivers of the choice among non-bank private (144A) debt, bank loans, and public debt made by 988 non-financial firms during 1993-2007. We document new evidence that, besides firm-level variables, macroeconomic factors are important determinants of changes in corporate debt mix....

We conduct performance tests of the recommended asset allocations made by a panel of international investment houses (the "Houses") from 1982 through 2005. We compare the returns and Sharpe Ratios from the recommended-weight portfolio against those of several benchmark portfolios and to a set of...

This paper combines the use of portfolio holdings data and conditioning information to create a new performance measure. Our conditional weight-based measure has several advantages. Using conditioning information avoids biases in weight-based measures as discussed by Grinblatt and Titman (1993)....