We find that the firm-level variance risk premium has a prominent explanatory power for credit spreads in the presence of market- and firm-level control variables established in the existing literature. Such predictability complements that of the leading state variable—the leverage ratio—and...

We find that firm-level variance risk premium, estimated as the difference between option-implied and expected variances, has a prominent explanatory power for credit spreads in the presence of market- and firm-level risk control variables identified in the existing literature. Such a...

Stock return volatility significantly predicts active leverage adjustment, consistent with the trade-off theory. Firms respond asymmetrically to rising volatility instead of falling volatility, more with debt reduction than equity issuance. The forecasting power of stock return volatility mostly...

We provide a novel interpretation of shadow banking in China from the perspective of dual-track interest rate liberalization. Shadow banking leads to a Kaldor-Hicks improvement, if the gains from reducing the capital idleness and financing the more productive private enterprise (PE) outweigh the...

We find that firm-level variance risk premium, estimated as the difference between option-implied and expected variances, has a prominent explanatory power for credit spreads in the presence of market- and firm-level risk control variables identified in the existing literature. Such a...

We find that firm-level variance risk premium, estimated as the difference between option-implied and expected variances, has a prominent explanatory power for credit spreads in the presence of market- and firm-level risk control variables identified in the existing literature. Such a...