Does short-term debt increase vulnerability to financial crisis, or does short-term debt reflect -- rather than cause … -- the incipient crisis? We study the role that short-term debt played in the collapse of the East Asian financial sector in … 1997-1998. We alleviate concerns about the endogeneity of short-term debt by using long-term debt obligations that matured …

We study rollover risk and collateral value in a dynamic asset pricing model with endogenous debt financing by … borrowers face rollover risk if the belief dispersion between the borrowers and the pessimistic lenders widens after interim bad … news. We demonstrate the optimality of the maximum riskless short-term debt financing for optimistic borrowers even in the …