Ding, Jianglin Dennis; Pennacchi, George - 2021
collateral and various covenants on syndicated loan risk. It addresses firms’ self-selection of these contract terms by analyzing … how a loan’s collateral and covenants affect: 1) the difference between the loan’s credit rating and the senior, unsecured … loan’s credit spread. The results show that the rating agency and investors agree that a collateral requirement, a capital …