In this paper, we examine the effect of shareholder governance mechanisms on the firms' credit risk through credit default swap spreads. Our results suggest that higher antitakeover provisions decrease the price of debt. We find that on average, addition of one antitakeover provision lowers the...

We examine the relationship between the Governance Index (G-Index) and convertible bonduse by firms, specifically in the presence or absence of covenants. We find that the better theshareholder governance (lower G-Index) of firms, the more they are likely to issue convertibleinstead of straight...