Morgan, Donald P.; Stiroh, Kevin J. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1999
of policing bank risk with private investors, especially bondholders. This paper investigates the disciplinary role of … markets using bond spreads, ratings, and bank portfolio data on over 4,100 new bonds issued between 1993 and 1998, including … almost 600 bond issues by banks and bank holding companies. We find that the bond spread/rating relationship is the same for …