Next, we conduct additional analyses to better understand what is driving the effects that
financial reporting has on lending decisions in our experiment. Hewitt (2009) identifies differences
in information acquisition as one possible explanation for presentation and location effects.
Alternatively, the effects we observe could arise during the evaluation and weighting stage of
information processing, such that investors acquire information about capitalized renewal periods,
independent of the accounting treatment, but then treat renewal periods differently as a function of
how accounting rules categorize the payments associated with these periods.