Pan, Yihui; Wang, Tracy Yue; Weisbach, Michael S. - 2015
Management risk occurs because uncertainty about future managerial decisions increases a firm's overall risk. This … paper documents the importance of management risk in determining firms' cost of borrowing. CDS spreads, loan spreads and … bond yield spreads all increase at the time of CEO turnover, when management risk is highest, and decline over the first …