This paper investigates whether firms strategically deviate positively from their normal environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure levels as a signal to investors to obtain better access to finance. Analysing 3,900 firm-year observations in the US corporate bond market from 2009 to...

Charakterisierung von Unternehmensanleihen -- Konzeption der empirischen Untersuchung und Datenaufbereitung -- Empirische Methodik: Bestimmung von impliziten Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeiten aus Zinsstrukturkurven -- Empirische Untersuchung: Analyse der impliziten Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeiten --...

This report presents a long-term view of the evolution of financing of EU non-financial corporations (NFCs) in recent decades. It finds a decline in NFC leverage since at least 2008, and across countries, size categories and industries. It also documents a growing role of non-bank financial...

We assess the degree of market fragmentation in the euro-area corporate bond market by disentangling the determinants of the risk premium paid on bonds at origination. By looking at over 2,400 bonds we are able to isolate the country-specific effects which are a suitable indicator of the market...

This thesis combines five chapters, all of which have been motivated by the exciting and intense policy discussions that have been dominating the political and economic landscape in recent years. It covers European bank regulation and its effects on financial stability and economic welfare, the...