2021
DOI: 10.1007/s11142-021-09608-6
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Criminals, bankruptcy, and cost of debt

Abstract: We examine whether criminal records of CEOs and rank-and-file employees are associated with firms’ likelihood of bankruptcy, and whether lenders adjust their required cost of debt accordingly. We use a nationwide sample of private firms and criminal registers covering all firm employees. We find that the likelihood of bankruptcy is positively associated with the CEO’s criminal record and the proportion of employees with criminal records. We find some, though less robust, evidence that lenders price a firm’s lo… Show more

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“…Moreover, Regenburg and Seitz (2021) use the quartiles based on the employees' salaries to identify their authority within the decision‐making process because they expect that the most‐paid employees will have more power (e.g., authority) to influence the decision‐making process. Consistently, we consider the percentage of women in each quartile of the firm's pay distribution and employ a dummy variable that captures the female participation in each pay quartile.…”
Section: Additional Analysesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, Regenburg and Seitz (2021) use the quartiles based on the employees' salaries to identify their authority within the decision‐making process because they expect that the most‐paid employees will have more power (e.g., authority) to influence the decision‐making process. Consistently, we consider the percentage of women in each quartile of the firm's pay distribution and employ a dummy variable that captures the female participation in each pay quartile.…”
Section: Additional Analysesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Timmermans (2010) provides an excellent description of the database targeted an English speaking audience. Several papers published in prestigious journals within accounting, finance, management and innovation rely on this dataset (e.g., Bennedsen et al., 2019; Dahl, 2011; Dahl et al., 2012; Jensen et al., 2022; Regenburg & Seitz, 2021).…”
Section: Data Sample Selection and Descriptive Statisticsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Panel C presents descriptive statistics for the variables used for the interest rate estimations. This sample size is smaller because we truncate the interest rate variable, as is standard in the literature (e.g., Gassen & Fülbier, 2015; Minnis, 2011; Regenburg & Seitz, 2021; vander Bauwhede et al., 2015). Section 3.2 elaborates on this.…”
Section: Data Sample Selection and Descriptive Statisticsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The following Table 2 provides only direct indicators, not derived ones. For example, CEO age, not the log of CEO ages [75], or tenure, expertise, and education diversity, not its sum named as cognitive diversity [23], etc. In addition, these indicators can be used to create graphs, such as shareholder or manager connection graphs [76].…”
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confidence: 99%