Deadly Disease, Fear, and Ostracism in the Credit Market

The authors are grateful for helpful comments from Bo Becker (Department Editor), an anonymous Associate Editor, two anonymous referees, Ben Charoenwong, Hanming Fang, Pengfei Han, Grace Hu, Yu-Jane Liu, Shusen Qi, Anand Srinivasan, Bernard Yeung, participants of the seminar at National University of Singapore, Peking University and South University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai International Studies University, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and participants of Third China Banking and Corporate Finance Conference, China International Risk Forum, AsianFA for helpful comments. All errors are our own. All authors contributed equally.