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Leaning Against the Wind: Debt Financing in the Face of Adversity
(2016-12-29)
We offer evidence of a new stylized feature of corporate financing decisions: the tendency of managers to rely more on debt financing when earnings prospects are poor. We term this 'leaning against the wind' and consider ...
The Value of Firm Networks: A Natural Experiment on Board Connections
(2020-04-13)
This paper presents causal evidence of the effects of boardroom networks on firm value and compensation policies. We exploit exogenous variation in network centrality arising from a ban on interlocking directorates of ...
Collateral Eligibility of Corporate Debt in the Eurosystem
(2020-04-01)
We study how the Eurosystem Collateral Framework for corporate bonds helps the European Central Bank (ECB) fulfill its policy mandate. Using the ECBs eligibility list, we identify the first inclusion date of both bonds and ...
The Value of Firm Networks: A Natural Experiment on Board Connections
(2021-08-03)
We present causal evidence on the effect of boardroom networks on firm value and compensation policies. We exploit a ban on interlocking directorates of Italian financial and insurance companies as exogenous variation and ...