We examine the relation between firm reputation and the cost of debt financing. We posit that corporate reputation … magazine's survey of company reputation while controlling for the impact of firm-level variables, we find an inverse relation … between a company's reputation and its bond (bank loan) credit spreads. We also find that firms with high reputation face less …

This paper examines whether firm reputation impacts borrowing costs and thus investment. Using unique data from Fortune … reputation measures removing the impact of prior financial performance. Further evidence suggests that banks reward reputable … firms with better contract terms because this reputation proxy contains incremental information on borrower future …

Corporate reputation is an important management objective, bearing the potential to create sustainable competitive …. Applying a validated measure of reputation, we scrutinize its impact for a set of German blue-chip companies between 2005 and … 2011. We show that higher levels of reputation are associated with a lower future cost of equity. While reputation …