Supplier financing, or trade credit, is an increasingly important source of financing for a company. This paper tests two alternative views on the relation between trade credit and future stock price crash risk: monitoring and concession. We present robust evidence that supplier financing is...

This paper examines the relation between bank branch deregulation and corporate borrowers' stock price crash risk. Using a large sample of U.S. public firms over the period 1962-2001, we provide robust evidence that intrastate branch reform reduces firms' stock price crash risk. Our finding is...

We find that firms with a larger proportion of short-term debt have lower future stock price crash risk, consistent with short-term debt lenders playing an effective monitoring role in constraining managers' bad-news-hoarding behavior. The inverse relation between short-maturity debt and future...

This paper studies the effects of bank accounting conservatism on the pricing of syndicated bank loans. We provide evidence that banks timelier in loss recognition charge higher spreads. We go on to consider what happens to the relationship between spreads and timeliness in loss recognition...