Should corporate debt include a rating trigger?

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-98

  Bhanot, Karan ^a   Mello, Antonio S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency costs; Asset substitution; Corporate debt; Covenant; Rating trigger

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244473561     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2005.01.002     Document Type: Article

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