This paper analyzes the impact of shareholder-creditor conflicts on corporate risk-taking. Specifically, I examine the role played by institutional dual-holders (i.e., those simultaneously holding the same firm's debt and equity) in corporate innovation. Baseline results show that firms held by...

Using proprietary employer-employee matched data of the U.S. Census Bureau, we measure individual workers' risk tolerance towards their jobs by their family labor income diversification, and formally test the firm-level equilibrium matching between capital structure and employees' job risk...

Costs are sticky on average, i.e., they fall less for sales decreases than they rise for equivalent sales increases. We examine the effect of this asymmetric cost behavior on a firm's dividend policy. Given investors' aversion to dividend cuts, we predict that firms with higher resource...