Bräuning, Falk; Fillat, Jose L.; Wang, J. Christina - 2021
Do firms lengthen the maturity of their borrowing following a flattening of the Treasury yield curve that results from … policy over the two regimes. We find that the answer is robustly yes for the pre-ZLB period: Firms extended the maturity of … their bond issuance by nearly three years in response to a policy-induced reduction of 1 percentage point in the maturity …