As a follow-up to our tests of H2, we also examine whether there is a difference in willingness to lend between the renewal-options-not-capitalized condition and the renewal-options-capitalized-and-disaggregated condition to test whether there is any difference in participants’ willingness to lend to a firm that capitalizes renewal periods in a lease and then disaggregates the lease liability into fixed and optionalcomponents as compared to a firm that does not capitalize renewal periods in a lease. The difference between these two conditions (2 percent difference in willingness to lend) is not statistically significant (z ¼ 0.10, p ¼ 0.92, two-tailed, untabulated), suggesting that the
disaggregation of optional and non-cancelable portions of a lease is effective in mitigating the
information loss that arises when optional renewal periods are capitalized and aggregated with other
lease liabilities.