We examine whether bankers face disciplining consequences for structuring poorly performing corporate loans. We construct a novel dataset containing the employment histories and loan portfolios of a large sample of corporate bankers and find that corporate credit events (i.e., downgrades,...

"We argue that a firm's aggregate risk is a key determinant of whether it manages its future liquidity needs through cash reserves or bank lines of credit. Banks create liquidity for firms by pooling their idiosyncratic risks. As a result, firms with high aggregate risk find it costly to get...

Success in human resource management (HRM) depends on the question of whether applied practices of HRM meet specific contingency factors and are appropriately configured. Using this argument, the present article examines HRM in professional service firms (PSFs) in pursuit of three objectives....