Trust and use of covenants

Mengyi Cao and Qing Xia

Research in International Business and Finance, 2021, vol. 57, issue C

Abstract: This paper provides new evidence on how cultural norms affect contract design in international transactions. By using a comprehensive dataset on Yankee bonds, we find that bond contracts include more covenants when the issuer comes from a country with a lower level of trust. This substitution effect between trust and contractual detail holds after controlling for a variety of controls in country, firm and security level. The findings suggest that foreign firms can write sophisticated contracts that overcome the shortage of trust and facilitate the access to global capital markets.

Keywords: Bond contract design; Cultural norms; Yankee bonds; Trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ribaf.2021.101423

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