Employing an international sample of 12,422 bank loan facilities across 37 countries spanning the period from 2000-2016, we find that both media coverage and positive media sentiment reduce the bank loan interest rate spread, which can be achieved through the media’s roles in mitigating...

Financial systemic risk – defined as the risk of collapse of an entire financial system vis-à-vis any one individual financial institution – is making inroads into academic research in the aftermath of the late 2000s Global Financial Crisis. We shed light on this new concept by...

Shareholder attention matters for a corporate. Yet little is known about how it affects corporate financing costs. This paper examines the effect of the distracted attention to a particular firm on a firm’s loan contract by adopting a distinct quasi-natural experiment that measures exogenous...

This study examines the effect of the use of Asset-backed Securitisation (ABS) on corporate risk-taking. After careful consideration of self-selection bias and endogeneity, we find that the use of ABS is positively associated with corporate risk-taking. More borrowing through ABS economically...