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Author:Waisman, Maya 

Working Paper
Does geography matter to bondholders?

We find that the location of corporate headquarters significantly affects the firm?s bondholders. Similar to Loughran and Schultz (2006) and others, who show that investors are better able to obtain information on nearby companies, we look at firms located in large metropolitan cities, small cities, and rural areas and find that firms located in remote rural areas exhibit significantly higher costs of debt capital (of up to 65 basis points) in comparison to their urban counterparts. Unlike other studies that focus on the role of information asymmetries in the local bias of investors and ...
FRB Atlanta Working Paper , Paper 2007-02

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