Regina Wittenberg Moerman

University of Southern California

2250 Alcazar Street

Los Angeles, CA 90089

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1.

The Impact of Financial Reporting Quality on Debt Contracting: Evidence from Internal Control Weakness Reports

Journal of Accounting Research, forthcoming.
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2010
Anna M. Costello and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Southern California
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financial reporting quality, debt contracting, internal control reports, a material internal control weakness, the syndicated loan market

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The Role of Information Asymmetry and Financial Reporting Quality in Debt Trading: Evidence from the Secondary Loan Market

The Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2008
Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of Southern California
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secondary loan trading, syndicated loans, information asymmetry, timely loss recognition, accounting conservatism

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The Impact of Information Asymmetry on Debt Pricing and Maturity

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 20 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2009
Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of Southern California
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information asymmetry, cost of capital, cost of debt capital, debt maturity, disclosure, financial reporting quality, syndicated loans, loan trading

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Accounting Quality and Debt Concentration

Ningzhong Li, Yun Lou, Clemens A Otto, and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman (2020) Accounting Quality and Debt Concentration. The Accounting Review. DOI/10.2308/tar-2017-0250, Forthcoming , Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Research Paper No. 2020-113
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 02 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2020
Ningzhong Li, Yun Lou, Clemens A. Otto and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of Texas at Dallas, Singapore Management University - School of Accountancy, Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business and University of Southern California
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Media Coverage and the Stock Market Valuation of TARP Participating Banks

European Accounting Review Forthcoming, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 10-10
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2015
Jeffrey Ng, Florin P. Vasvari and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Hong Kong Polytechnic University - School of Accounting and Finance, London Business School and University of Southern California
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Capital Purchase Program, Capital Infusion, Valuation, Investor Sentiment, Media

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Credit Default Swaps and Managers’ Voluntary Disclosure

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Credit Default Swaps and Managers’ Voluntary Disclosure

Journal of Accounting Research, 2018
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2018
Jae B. Kim, Pervin K. Shroff, Dushyantkumar Vyas and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Lehigh University - College of Business & Economics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Southern California
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the CDS market; actively traded CDS contracts; voluntary disclosures; earnings forecasts; firm-initiated press releases

Credit Default Swaps and Managers’ Voluntary Disclosure

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2018
Posted: 15 Aug 2018
Jae B. Kim, Pervin K. Shroff, Dushyantkumar Vyas and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Lehigh University - College of Business & Economics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Southern California

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CDS Market, Credit Default Swaps, CDS Trading Initiation, Bank Monitoring, Private Lender Monitoring, Voluntary Disclosures, Earnings Forecasts, Management Forecasts

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Accounting Information in Financial Contracting: The Incomplete Contract Theory Perspective

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Accounting Information in Financial Contracting: The Incomplete Contract Theory Perspective

Journal of Accounting Research, 54, 2016
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 13 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2016
Hans Bonde Christensen, Valeri V. Nikolaev and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Southern California
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Financial contracting, incomplete contracts, accounting-based covenants, control allocation, contracting on accounting information

Accounting Information in Financial Contracting: The Incomplete Contract Theory Perspective

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 54, No. 2, 2016
Posted: 15 Jul 2016
Hans Bonde Christensen, Regina Wittenberg Moerman and Valeri V. Nikolaev
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Southern California and University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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financial contracting, incomplete contracts, accounting-based covenants, control allocation, contracting on accounting information

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The Informational Role of the Media in Private Lending

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The Informational Role of the Media in Private Lending

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 05 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2016
Robert M. Bushman, Christopher D. Williams and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Southern California
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media, relationship lending, syndicate structure, lead arranger, sentiment

The Informational Role of the Media in Private Lending

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 55, No. 1, March 2017
Posted: 25 Jul 2017
Robert M. Bushman, Christopher D. Williams and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Southern California

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Media; Relationship Lending; Syndicate Structure; Lead Arranger; Sentiment

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Debt Analysts’ Views of Debt-Equity Conflicts of Interest

The Accounting Review, Forthcoming, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 10-13
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2013
Gus De Franco, Florin P. Vasvari, Dushyantkumar Vyas and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business, London Business School, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Southern California
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debt analysts, equity analysts, debt-equity conflict events, bond volume, bond yield, CDS spreads

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Price Discovery and Dissemination of Private Information by Loan Syndicate Participants

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 48 No. 5 December 2010
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 22 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2017
Robert M. Bushman, Abbie J. Smith and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Southern California
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price discovery, syndicated loan market, private information in the loan market, institutional investors, earnings announcements, secondary loan market

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Does Secondary Loan Market Trading Destroy Lenders’ Incentives?

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 09-45
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 03 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2012
Robert M. Bushman and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of Southern California
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syndicated loan market, secondary loan market, loan trading, lenders' incentives, originate-to-distribute model of bank credit, reputation of the lead arranger of syndication

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Dynamic Threshold Values in Earnings-Based Covenants

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 12-40
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2015
Ningzhong Li, Florin P. Vasvari and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of Texas at Dallas, London Business School and University of Southern California
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syndicated loans, financial covenants, covenant threshold trend, signaling hypothesis, incomplete debt contracting theory

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Making Sense of Soft Information: Interpretation Bias and Loan Quality

8th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference 2017, Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Working Paper No. 18-110, Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 24 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2019
Dennis Campbell, Maria Loumioti and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Harvard University - Accounting & Control Unit, The University of Texas at Dallas and University of Southern California
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Soft information, credit outcomes, cognitive constraints, interpretation and processing bias

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The Informational Role of Bond Analysts

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2009
Gus De Franco, Florin P. Vasvari and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business, London Business School and University of Southern California
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bond analysts reports, bond analysts recommendations, bond market reactions

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The Role of Bank Reputation in 'Certifying' Future Performance Implications of Borrowers' Accounting Numbers

Journal of Accounting Research, 2012, Volume 50, Issue 4, 883-930.
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 16 May 2016
Robert M. Bushman and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of Southern California
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bank reputation, earnings quality, earnings persistence, syndicated loan market, debt contracting, bank certification, arranger of syndication

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Similarity in Bond Covenants

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2288723
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 04 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2016
Gus De Franco, Florin P. Vasvari, Dushyantkumar Vyas and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business, London Business School, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Southern California
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Covenants, Covenant Restrictiveness, Comparability, Similarity, Bond Yields

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The Effect of Information Opacity and Accounting Irregularities on Personal Lending Relationships: Evidence From Lender and Manager Co-migration

The Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 08 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2018
Urooj Khan, Xinlei Li, Christopher D. Williams and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Southern California
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Bank lending, lender-manager relationship, debt contracting, information environment, accounting irregularity

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Institutional Dual-Holders and Managers’ Earnings Disclosure

Forthcoming, The Accounting Review https://doi.org/10.2308/TAR-2019-0623
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 22 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2021
Leila Peyravan and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and University of Southern California
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Dual-holders, disclosure, informed trading

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Enhancing Loan Quality Through Transparency: Evidence from the European Central Bank Loan Level Reporting Initiative

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Enhancing Loan Quality Through Transparency: Evidence from the European Central Bank Loan Level Reporting Initiative

Journal of Accounting Research, 2017
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 12 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2016
Aytekin Ertan, Maria Loumioti and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
London Business School, The University of Texas at Dallas and University of Southern California
Downloads 246 (171,891)
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Securitization; Asset-backed securities; Transparency; Credit risk; Credit standards; Loan quality

Enhancing Loan Quality Through Transparency: Evidence from the European Central Bank Loan Level Reporting Initiative

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 55, No. 4, 2017
Posted: 14 Nov 2017
Aytekin Ertan, Maria Loumioti and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
London Business School, The University of Texas at Dallas and University of Southern California

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securitization; asset-backed securities; transparency; credit risk; credit standards; loan quality

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Strategic Syndication: Is Bad News Shared in Loan Syndicates?

Review of Accounting Studies (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 23 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2022
Andrea K. Down, Christopher D. Williams and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Southern California
Downloads 196 (213,386)
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Syndicated loan market, Lead arrangers, Disclosure, FDA, Informational advantage, Syndicate participants

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Community Membership and Reciprocity in Lending: Evidence from Informal Markets

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Community Membership and Reciprocity in Lending: Evidence from Informal Markets

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 21-09, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 28 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2022
Rimmy E. Tomy and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of Chicago and University of Southern California
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Trade Credit, Informal Economies, Lending, Reciprocity, India, Iewduh, Community Enforcement, Asymmetric Information

Community Membership and Reciprocity in Lending: Evidence from Informal Markets

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2021-114
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 30 Sep 2021
Rimmy E. Tomy and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
University of Chicago and University of Southern California
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Trade Credit, Informal Economies, Lending, Reciprocity, India, Iewduh, Community Enforcement, Asymmetric Information

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The Harmonization of Lending Standards within Banks through Mandated Loan-Level Transparency

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The Harmonization of Lending Standards within Banks through Mandated Loan-Level Transparency

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Vol. 71, No. 1, 2021
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 05 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2021
Jung Koo Kang, Maria Loumioti and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Harvard Business School, The University of Texas at Dallas and University of Southern California
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transparency, external and internal reporting, credit term harmonization, learning, regulatory scrutiny

Lifting the Banking Veil: Credit Standards’ Harmonization Through Lending Transparency

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 24 Jan 2020
Jung Koo Kang, Maria Loumioti and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Harvard Business School, The University of Texas at Dallas and University of Southern California
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credit market, harmonization, learning, regulatory scrutiny, transparency

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CDS Trading and Non-Relationship Lending Dynamics

Review of Accounting Studies (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Apr 2020
Jung Koo Kang, Christopher D. Williams and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Harvard Business School, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Southern California
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credit default swaps, CDS market, non-relationship lending, debt contracts, adverse selection, bank monitoring, cross-selling

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Contracting in the Dark: The Rise of Public-Side Lenders in the Syndicated Loan Market

Posted: 06 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2022
Hami Amiraslani, John Donovan, Matthew Phillips and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
INSEAD, University of Notre Dame - Department of Accountancy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Southern California

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public-side lenders, loan screening and monitoring, private information, information barriers, control rights, institutional lenders, syndicated lending, information asymmetry, regulatory oversight