A Gap-Filling Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice

  1. ROBIN GREENWOOD,
  2. SAMUEL HANSON,
  3. JEREMY C. STEIN*

Article first published online: 7 MAY 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010.01559.x

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The Journal of Finance

The Journal of Finance

Volume 65, Issue 3, pages 993–1028, June 2010

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GREENWOOD, R., HANSON, S. and STEIN, J. C. (2010), A Gap-Filling Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice. The Journal of Finance, 65: 993–1028. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010.01559.x

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* Greenwood and Stein are at Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Hanson is at Harvard University. We thank Tobias Adrian, Malcolm Baker, Sergey Chernenko, Ken French, Ken Garbade, John Graham (co-editor), Campbell Harvey (editor), Arvind Krishnamurthy, Robert McDonald, Adriano Rampini, Andrei Shleifer, Matt Spiegel, Erik Stafford, Lawrence Summers, Dimitri Vayanos, Luis Viceira, Jeffrey Wurgler, an anonymous referee and associate editor, and seminar participants at the NBER Corporate Finance meeting, Kellogg, Yale School of Management, Brown, the University of North Carolina-Duke Corporate Finance conference, the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for helpful suggestions. We are grateful to Sergey Chernenko and Michael Faulkender for sharing their data on swap activity.

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