Mitchell A Petersen

Biographic Data

ID5852162
NAMEMitchell A Petersen
GIVEN NAMESMitchell A
FAMILY NAMEPetersen
SIGNATUREPETERSEN M A
AFFILIATIONSNorthwestern University
ORCID0009-0008-8271-5822
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX0

  • Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches

    Mitchell A PetersenARTICLEReview of Financial Studies2009

    In corporate finance and asset pricing empirical work, researchers are often confronted with panel data. In these data sets, the residuals may be correlated across firms or across time, and OLS standard errors can be biased. Historically, researchers in the two literatures have used different solutions to this problem. This paper examines the different methods used in the literature and explains when the different methods yield the same (and corr…

  • Does function follow organizational form? Evidence from the lending practices of large and small banks

    Open AccessAllen N Berger, Nathan Miller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Financial Economics2005

  • Does Function Follow Organizational Form? Evidence from the Lending Practices of Large and Small Banks

    Open AccessAllen N Berger, Nathan Miller et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2001References: 13

  • Trade Credit: Theories and Evidence

    Mitchell A Petersen, Raghuram G RajanARTICLEReview of Financial Studies1997

    Firms may be financed by their suppliers rather than by financial institutions. There are many theories of trade credit, but few comprehensive empirical tests. This article attempts to fill the gap. We focus on small firms whose access to capital markets may be limited and find evidence suggesting that firms use more trade credit when credit from financial institutions is unavailable. Suppliers lend to constrained firms because they have a compar…

  • The Effect of Credit Market Competition on Lending Relationships

    Mitchell A Petersen, Raghuram G RajanARTICLEThe Quarterly Journal of Economics1995

    This paper provides a simple framework showing that the extent of competition in credit markets is important in determining the value of lending relationships. Creditors are more likely to finance credit-constrained firms when credit markets are concentrated because it is easier for these creditors to internalize the benefits of assisting the firms. The paper offers evidence from small business data in support of this hypothesis.