We study the leverage of U.S. firms over their life cycles and the connection between firm leverage, firm growth, and aggregate shocks. We construct a new dataset that combines private and public firms’ balance sheets with firm-level data from U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business...

This study addresses the controversial issue of how non-financial performance affects the cost of debt capital and access to it. The relationship between corporate social performance and two measures of debt cost (accounting-based and market-based) and the measure of debt access are analysed by...

This paper investigates how bank characteristics (market share, principal shareholders, profitability, and size), and the gender of the company's board members, along with their supervisory abilities, influence the firm's performance, cost of debt, and leverage. We extracted relevant data from a...