This paper examines how CEO overconfidence affects firms' choice of debt issuance among private debt (i.e., bank loan and non-bank loan) and public bond. Using a sample of U.S. rated public firms, we find that firms with overconfident CEOs tend to issue more private debt and issue private debt...

This paper examines the impact of capital market deepening on economic growth of Bangladesh using the time series data on market capitalization-GDP ratio, total market turnover-GDP ratio and Savings-GDP ratio over the period covering from the year 1991 to 2011. The economic results found by...