We investigate why employee-friendly firms often benefit from lower costs of debt financing. We theorize that banks use employee treatment as a screen to assess firms' trustworthiness, which encompasses not only confidence in firms' ability to perform well but also the belief that they will act...

This paper investigates the impact of US Export-Import Bank (EXIM) on US exports particularly in the wake of international competition from foreign national export credit agencies (ECAs). We employ a gravity framework on a country-industry-year-level panel dataset that matches EXIM...

In this study, we utilize the setting of bank M&As to examine banks’ role in tax planning intermediation through helping their clients establish offshore tax haven operations. After a bank M&A, the clients of the target bank “involuntarily” switch to a significantly larger relationship...