Bilodeau, Julien Missonier-Piera, Franck 2015 This paper investigates the use of covenants in debt contracts as well as the role played by accounting numbers in those contracts. More specifically, it provides evidence that covenants, and more importantly accounting based covenants, are used in a cost effective way in these contracts. It also provides a unique description of the types of covenants and accounting numbers which are used in a large sample of loan issued to small Canadian firms. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/320177 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/320177/files/2015_Bilodeau_Design.pdf eng https://doi.org/10.22495/cocv12i2p1 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.22495/cocv12i2p1 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Corporate Ownership & Control. - 2015, vol. 12, no. 2, p. 8-16 Loan Accounting Covenants Costs info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33 The design of dept contracts : evidence of cost effective use of covenants from a large sample of small loans http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501