All other terms being equal (e.g. seniority), syndicated loan contracts provide larger lending compensations (in percentage points) to institutions funding larger amounts. This paper explores empirically the motivation for such a price design on a sample of sovereign syndicated loans in the...

Since the 1990s, the private sector in developing countries has contracted a substantially larger share of foreign-currency debts (external debts). In this paper, I empirically examine the effect of private sector external debts on bank loan prices. I find that, in general, the private sector...

Since the 1990's, developing countries have privatized their manufacturing and banking sectors. As a result, a substantially larger share of external debt has been contracted by the private sector. We examine the effects on bank loan prices as a result of this major change in the international...