This paper examines how CEO overconfidence affects firms' choice of debt issuance among private debt (i.e., bank loan and non-bank loan) and public bond. Using a sample of U.S. rated public firms, we find that firms with overconfident CEOs tend to issue more private debt and issue private debt...

We study a continuous-time dynamic capital structure model in which a firm can continuously adjust its capital structure. Unlike previous models, we assume heterogeneous equity and debt holders and segmented equity and debt markets. We show that the expected future equity and debt market...

This paper examines the effect of organization capital on corporate debt structure. We find that firms with higher organization capital rely more on unsecured debt. Using state-level unemployment insurance benefits and industry median organization capital as instrumental variables, we identity...

We find that US public firms spread out their debt more across different sources in recession quarters, making measures of debt concentration move pro-cyclically, on average. There is substantial cross-sectional variation in these dynamics. In particular, firms with already low leverage and high...