What is the effect of funding costs on the conditional probability of issuing a corporate bond? We study this question in a novel dataset covering 5,610 issuances by US firms over the period from 1990 to 2014. Identification of this effect is complicated because of unobserved, common shocks such...

We investigate a nonparametric panel model with heterogeneous regression functions. In a variety of applications, it is natural to impose a group structure on the regression curves. Specifically, we may suppose that the observed individuals can be grouped into a number of classes whose members...

This paper studies the effect of funding costs on the conditional probability of issuing a corporate bond in a novel dataset covering 5610 issuances by US financial and non-financial corporates over the period from 1990 to 2014. But identification of these effects is complicated by unobserved...