Loan funds are open-end mutual funds holding predominantly corporate leveraged loans. We document empirically that loan funds are significantly more susceptible to run risk than any other category of debt funds, including corporate bond funds. Most importantly, we establish a link between loan...

As a result of the global financial crisis countercyclical capital requirements have been discussed to prevent fi nancial bubbles generated in the banking sector and to mitigate the adverse effects of fi nancial repression after a bubble burst. This paper analyses the effects of an endogenous...