We provide evidence consistent with a “credit-line drawdown channel” to explain the large and persistent crash of bank stock prices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stock prices of banks with large ex-ante exposures to undrawn credit lines and large ex-post gross drawdowns declined more,...

Data on firm-loan-level daily credit line drawdowns in the United States reveals a corporate “dash for cash” induced by COVID-19. In the first phase of extreme precaution and heightened aggregate risk, all firms drew down bank credit lines and raised cash levels. In the second phase...

We use secondary corporate loan market prices to construct a novel loan market-based credit spread. This measure has additional predictive power across macroeconomic outcomes beyond existing bond credit spreads as well as other commonly used predictors in both the U.S. and Europe. Consistent...

This online appendix to "Brexit" and the Contraction of Syndicated Lending presents further robustness tests of the Brexit effect, cross-sectional results of the Brexit effect for UK firms, further results on the type of the shock the Brexit represents, the Siamese Twins matching methodology as...