The Dynamics of Borrower Reputation Following Financial Misreporting Academic Article

abstract

• We study the dynamics of borrower reputation in bank loan markets following revelations of financial misreporting by the borrower. Misreporting firms pay greater loan spreads than matched firms for at least six years following revelation of the misreporting, and there is no evidence of a downward trend in the misreporting premium. Following revelation, misreporting firms are more likely to engage in various actions to potentially rebuild their reputations, but even firms that engage in multiple actions continue to pay greater loan spreads for at least six years. Our results suggest that misreporting causes long-lasting and costly reputation losses that firms find very difficult or prohibitively costly to restore. Data and the online appendix are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.2739 . This paper was accepted by Wei Jiang, finance.

authors

• Johnson, Shane

published proceedings

• MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

author list (cited authors)

• Chava, S., Huang, K., & Johnson, S. A.

citation count

• 29

complete list of authors

• Chava, Sudheer||Huang, Kershen||Johnson, Shane A

publication date

• January 2018

publisher

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)  Publisher

published in

• Management science  Journal

keywords

• Bank Loans
• Cost Of Debt
• Financial Restatements
• Fraud
• Reputation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1287/mnsc.2017.2739

start page

• 4775

end page

• 4797

volume

• 64

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2017.2739