Do Banks Price Litigation Risk in Debt Contracting? Evidence from Class Action Lawsuits

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Both authors are with the Department of Accounting, University of Melbourne, Australia. The authors would like to thank an anonymous referee, Gary Biddle, Jim Frederickson, Bin Ke, Kevin Li, Brian Rountree (Editor), Wan Wongsunwai (discussant), Anne Wyatt (discussant), Haifeng You (discussant), and participants in the Melbourne Early Career Researcher Symposium 2012, American Accounting Association 2013 Annual Conference, and UTS Australian Summer Accounting Conference 2014 for their helpful comments. Qingbo Yuan acknowledges the Faculty of Business and Economics at University of Melbourne for financial support. (Paper received March 2015, revised version accepted August 2015).