We examine whether initial loan sales in the secondary loan market relate to borrowing firms' accounting conservatism. We find that borrowing firms exhibit a significant decline in accounting conservatism after the initial loan sales. We show that the decline in borrower conservatism is more...

We study the effects of mark-to-market accounting (MTM) on banks' loan origination and retention decisions. We point out a conceptual shortcoming of MTM. Loan prices are informative in equilibrium but this price discovery is sustained by the good banks' costly retention. The attempt to exploit...

Despite the importance of banks' role as delegated monitors, little is known about how non-price terms of loan contracts are structured to optimize information production in a lending relationship. Using a large sample of corporate loans, this paper examines the effect of relationship lending on...

This paper examines whether banks with female Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and chairpersons of the board are associated with better lending performance and lower default risk when faced with severe real estate price shocks. Using a large panel of U.S. commercial banks, we document that...

We examine whether bankers face disciplining consequences for structuring poorly performing corporate loans. We construct a novel dataset containing the employment histories and loan portfolios of a large sample of corporate bankers and find that corporate credit events (i.e., downgrades,...

Using a hand-collected sample of covenant violations reported by U.S. public firms, we examine whether and to what extent the entrenched board affects loan covenant violations. We find that CEO tenure is significantly and positively related to future covenant violation. Long tenure enhances CEO...