This study jointly evaluates the effects of the U.S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the Federal Reserve's Discount Window (DW) and Term Auction Facility (TAF) on bank syndicated lending during the 2007-2009 financial crisis, using a unique data set that tracks the exposure of...

English Abstract: Following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, local lending to French firms by foreign banks experienced a noticeable decline. We use the methodology proposed by Gan (2007) and Khwaja and Mian (2008) to control for borrower heterogeneity and identify the existence of a loan supply...

I examine the relation between borrowers' accounting information and banks' lending decisions, measured in terms of nonperforming loans (NPLs) and pooling of borrowers (i.e., the inability to price-differentiate borrowers). If the information contained in borrowers' financial statements affects...

We find some support for theories predicting that the presence of informed investors adversely affects liquidity: When arrangers retain a share in the loan this impacts negatively liquidity. We find strong evidence that investor diversity is beneficial to liquidity: Loans with larger syndicates;...

The Fed's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) is widely considered a good indicator of banks' lending conditions. We use the change in corporate bond spreads on SLOOS release days to instrument changes in lending standards. A series of estimated IV local projections shows that lending...

Asymmetric information is a factor that decreases the efficiency of markets. The aim of the study is to expose whether asymmetric information causes problems in credit markets. The monthly datas between 1986:01 – 2010:12 is analyzed with the causality tests (Toda ve Yamamoto,1995) to examine...

This is an Internet Appendix with additional tables for Zhang, Zhang, and Zhao (2022, available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3519341). The abstract of the paper is as follows:Using a dataset on syndicated loan primary market pricing adjustments, we examine whether relationship banks’...

The study documented in this paper utilises a probit regression analysis to empirically investigate the key macroeconomic factors that influence credit risk in the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market. By aggregating the United States (US) state-level data with LendingClub’s loan book covering...

We study the effects of a price transparency shock in the Brazilian OTC equity lending market. Previously, a publicly available stock-specific loan fee benchmark was the average fee of the past 15 trading days. On March 1, 2011, this interval was reduced to 3 days, significantly improving...

This paper deals with loan contracting from a private bank in Vietnam. We focus on the main loan contract features that the bank uses in lending to business firms, namely loan maturity, collateral and loan interest rate. Based upon the simultaneous equation model of Dennis et al. (2000) and the...