Prominent policy makers assert that managerial short-termism was at the root of the subprime crisis of 2007-2009. Prior scholarly research, however, largely rejects this assertion. Using a more comprehensive measure of CEO incentives for short-termism, we uncover evidence that short-termism...

A significant portion of public debt is issued by operating subsidiaries of diversified firms. Drawing on models of optimal incorporation, capital structure, and internal capital markets, I propose and test various rationales for firms to use external subsidiary debt financing. First, I find...

We find evidence that conflicts of interest arising from Mamp;A relations influence analysts' recommendations, corroborating regulators' and practitioners' suspicions in a setting, i.e. Mamp;A relations, not previously examined in research on analyst conflicts. In addition, the Mamp;A context...

While market prices can be useful tools for bank regulation, recent theoretical work argues that reliance on prices can be counterproductive when secondary markets are stressed and illiquid. Evidence from the financial crisis unearthed by Bhat, Frankel and Martin (2011) provides empirical...

We test whether the well-documented high returns of private equity sponsors result from wealth transfers from other financial claimants and counterparties and from a focus on short-term profits at the expense of long-term value. Debt investors who finance buyouts, as well as buyers of private...