This paper investigates how reputational risk arising from traditional and online media coverage of Corporate Social … Irresponsibility (CSI) conducts affects the cost of borrowing. It reports that negative media attention has a significant and positive … analyses other factors that can mitigate or amplify this effect. It reveals that the impact of negative media attention is more …

This study examines the effects of CEO global reputation on cross-border M&A performances. Based on the CEO's Twitter … accounts, we hand-collect the information about the CEO’s followers to measure their global reputation. We find that CEOs with …

How much does firm reputation matter in the public debt market? Using lawsuits that have an adverse effect on firm … reputation, we find corporate bond prices react to lawsuit information. Litigated firms issue bonds with 4.9 percent higher yield … spreads, 11-month shorter maturities, and $14.7 million less proceeds than non-litigated issuers. The reputation penalty …

Using data from China’s public debt markets, we study the value of corporate reputation and how it interacts with legal … and cultural forces to assure accountability. Exploring lawsuits that change corporate reputation, we find that firms …