Institutional Investor Attention, Agency Conflicts, and the Cost of Debt

The authors thank Brian Bushee (Editor), an associate editor, two anonymous reviewers, Wolfgang Drobetz, Joseph Weber, Regina Wittenberg Moerman, and seminar participants at Hamburg University, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Ottawa for comments and suggestions. They are also grateful to Yongqiang Chu for providing his 13F-DealScan correspondence table. Special thanks to Elisabeth Kempf at the University of Chicago for providing her shareholder distraction data and to Han Shi for providing retail attention data. Any remaining errors are the authors.