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...

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...