The Volkswagen emissions scandal is by far the largest case of emissions cheating in automotive history and had wide-reaching consequences for the industry throughout the world. This study examines the spillover effects to competitors and suppliers following Volkswagen's public admission of...

We develop a structural credit risk model to examine how the interactions of liquidity and default risk affect corporate bond pricing. By explicitly modeling debt rollover and by endogenizing the holding costs via collateralized financing, our model generates rich links between liquidity risk...