Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Media Coverage and the Cost of Debt. |
| Authors: |
Gao, Haoyu (AUTHOR), Wang, Junbo (AUTHOR) jwang2@cityu.edu.hk, Wang, Yanchu (AUTHOR), Wu, Chunchi (AUTHOR) chunchiw@buffalo.edu, Dong, Xi (AUTHOR) gaohaoyu@cufe.edu.cn |
| Source: |
Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis. Mar2020, Vol. 55 Issue 2, p429-471. 43p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Business journalism, *Corporate debt, *Bonds (Finance), *Rate of return, *Capital costs |
| Abstract: |
This paper investigates the relation between media coverage and offering yield spreads using a comprehensive dataset of 5,338 industrial bonds issued from 1990 to 2011. We find that media coverage is negatively associated with firms' cost of debt. This association is robust to controlling for standard yield determinants, different model specifications, and endogeneity. We identify 4 economic channels through which media coverage influences the cost of debt: Information asymmetry, governance, liquidity, and default risk. Importantly, media coverage has an independent influence beyond the effects of these economic mechanisms and is not a proxy for other firm attributes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Business Source Complete |
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