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...