BERGER, ALLEN N.; ESPINOSA-VEGA, MARCO A.; FRAME, W. SCOTT - In: Journal of Finance 60 (2005) 6, pp. 2895-2923
We test the implications of Flannery's (1986) and Diamond's (1991) models concerning the effects of risk and asymmetric information in determining debt maturity, and we examine the overall importance of informational asymmetries in debt maturity choices. We employ data on over 6,000 commercial...