This paper investigates whether firms vary the debt side of their capital structure, based on changes in investor demand for bonds. Examining asset flows into various asset classes over the last 30 years reveals that companies respond to recent increases in demand for bonds from investors by...

I examine the effects of transparency in the secondary market on the capital structure of firms. To identify it, I rely on a quasi-experiment in which the 2002 regulations of TRACE mandated the public dissemination of post-trade pricing and volume information for corporate bonds. Dissemination...